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This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa’s apartheid.

Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid. Their journey illustrates at every turn the grim realities of apartheid – the pass laws, bantustans, racism, the breakdown of family life.

The opulence of the white “Madam’s” house contrasts starkly with the reality that Naledi and Tiro face – that their baby sister...

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  • ISBN13 9780007263509
  • Publish Date 3 March 2008 (first published March 1985)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 March 2025
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Imprint HarperCollins