Under The African Sun

By Gail Gilbride

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Remember that desperate time after university when career choices are made intertwined with dating matters? Love, desire, work, all jostle for time and space in a swirl of emotion and choice, set on South Africa's 1970s stage with the grim backdrop of apartheid's security police looming.

Deborah Morley is an intern on a Cape Town newspaper. She's told to shadow Charlie, the political reporter. She listens to the Prime Minister's shocking speech and observes the reporting of it. She begins to have doubts about her choice of a news journalist career. What she really wants is a fairy tale wedding and a picket fence future in the suburbs. But her country is being torn apart by unrest and she's in love with Chris, a politics lecturer at the university.

School riots erupt across the country. Chris' involvement deepens and his mysterious research assistant makes Deborah feel vulnerable. Her friends Julia and Boetie are uneasy about the Security Police hovering around. Even Hercules, Chris's stallion, plays a role in the subterfuge. In the midst of the turbulent politics, Deborah's personal life seems to be settling down and Chris is paying her more attention. She is learning to stand on her own feet. She is becoming an independent being and a part of the ground-breaking changes happening in the country.

Chris is on a secret political mission upcountry, when his car develops a suspicious steering problem. A terrible accident changes all their lives forever and there is only one way Deborah can cope with it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0996281258
• ISBN13: 9780996281256
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Cactus Rain Publishing, LLC
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"