
Shadow Self
Paula Marais(Author)
Human & Rousseau (Pty) Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 16. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
347 pages
978-0-7981-6545-7 (ISBN)
Description
No mother is perfect ...In jail I have a lot of time to think, and I don't always have control over where my mind wanders. A lot of the time, and despite myself, I think about Clay: how much I loved him, the mistakes I made. So many mistakes! My daughters. My little boy, Joe. But my thoughts aren't always completely clear. I think through gauze, through filters. Being locked away minute after minute, second after second (for that's how slowly time passes) has made me realise that Ive spent my whole life in a fog. Some days it's like parting a thick black curtain in front of me, and just when I manage to open it and see a little light, the curtain falls closed again and I'm left in the dark. Most people want to know where this all started, and I sometimes wonder that too. Thea Middleton is behind bars for an unthinkable crime. As she, her husband Clay and eldest daughter Sanusha try to repair their shattered lives, their individual accounts form the pieces of a tragic puzzle that will haunt them forever.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cape Town
South Africa
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7981-6545-7 (9780798165457)
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Person
Paula Marais has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. She also has an Honours Degree in Publishing from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Diploma in Freelance Journalism from London. Previous publications include When your blessings dont count a self-help guide to recovering from postnatal distress; The Punishment; A Perfect Holiday Romance (Nollybooks); and Rainbow Nation Navigation a practical guide to South African cultures. She also contributes fairly regularly to the Financial Mail. Paula originally hails from Johannesburg, but now lives in Cape Town with her photographer husband and her two little boys.