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North Facing by Tony Peake (view source)
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Writing as a man looking back on his childhood allows Peake to feed in glimpses of the outside world to the sheltered private school setting, and it works remarkably well - an innocence of childhood shattered in a way that feels realistic in the power of the emotion that Peake conveys - always with intelligent perception. Thoroughly compelling and unexpectedly moving, ''North Facing'' is a fascinating portrait of both a childhood and a country. Many thanks to the publishers for the copy.
For further reading, I recommend [[A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale]] - another read that blends themes of discovery and sexuality with a transporting sense of time and place. For more about South Africa, we can recommend [[A British Lion in Zululand by William Wright]]. It's set in a slightly earlier time, but you might enjoy [[The Rowing Lesson by Anne Landsman]].
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