A Slim Green Silence

by Beverly Rycroft

Overview

“You will know this thing when you see it,” the Boatman tells Connie, “and you must be finished by half past six.” As she floats above her hometown of Scheepersdorp, Constance West can’t tell how long it’s been since she died. Nor why the mysterious Boatman rowed her back here. Beneath her, all the people she loved appear to be thriving. But the house of her guardian, the town dentist and former mayor, seems suspiciously quiet. And then there is Marianne, the baby daughter she had to leave behind. In Beverly Rycroft’s beautifully crafted novel, a small South African town in 1995 forms the backdrop to Connie’s tale. With honesty, humour and tenderness, Connie unravels the stories of her loved ones, and allows a secret in her own past to emerge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781415206270
Publisher:	Penguin Random House South Africa
Publication date:	03/02/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Beverly Rycroft’s (Graven) was born in Stutterheim, South Africa, and grew up in the Eastern Cape, the usa and KwaZuluNatal. She is a graduate of uct and Wits. A qualified teacher, she has won the 2012 Ingrid Jonker Prize for her debut poetry collection, missing, and the 2014 Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry in Journals. She has read at South African literary festivals and at the Aldeburgh Festival in the uk. Beverly lives in Cape Town with her family. A Slim Green Silence is her first novel.

Editorial Reviews

"Filled with lively, entertaining and often moving material, sprinkled with dry humour … This is a stimulating cocktail of pain, fun and social comment."

Witness

"[A] sensitively written, deeply considered novel."

Mercury

"Life-affirming."

Sunday Times

"The story will move you, leave you cold, make you angry – and when you no longer want to let it go, release you to the slim, green silence. I highly recommend it."

Sunday Times Lifestyle Magazine