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Sara Highbury, forty-eight years old, is the manageress of a boarding house in early 1900s South Africa. She lives her life in the past, haunted by a love affair with a diamond digger called Herbert. One day a young child arrives at Sara's door. Apparently the girl is Herbert's illegitimate daughter and it seems there is no one else to look after her. Having a child to care for disrupts Sara's quiet routine. Troubled by the mystery surrounding the girl's arrival, Sara begins to excavate the past. As the truth unfolds, Sarah must re-evaluate what she holds dear and engage once more with the world around her. With the backdrop of a rural landscape and characters that are as memorable as they are unexpected, The Shape of Him introduces a writer whose spare, exquisitely crafted prose places her deservedly in the tradition of the best of South African literary fiction.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Shape of Him
• Author: Gill Schierhout
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780099535775
• ISBN: 0099535777
• ID: 04019465
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 173 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 128 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. June 2010

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