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Was R203.95Now R163.16(eB 1632)
Delivery time: Usually within 10 working days. Country: South AfricaFormat: Softcover
Publisher: The Penguin Group (SA) (Pty) LtdISBN: 9780670047925 Publication date: August 2003 Length: 232mm Width: 152mm Thickness: 12mm Weight: 422g Pages: 311
Riddle child
Author: Annelie Botes
Was R203.95 Now R163.16
Riddle Child is a powerful read, both poignant in tone and as page-turning as a thriller. Alexander is an autistic child. His mother Ingrid is worn out, emotionally and in every other way, by trying to care for and love a son who never once has acknowledged her
existence except to bite and kick and scream in terror. His father Dawid, once the life and soul of their small town community, had given up and taken his own life and
gradually former friends and supporters drift away, confused and repulsed by this uncontrollable child. It is their housekeeper Miriam who manages somehow to soothe
and pacify him, and whose steadfast loyalty becomes Ingrid’s only source of comfort.
The child is terrified of water and in particular of taking a bath. It is as if he is afraid he will be sucked down the plug hole. How, then, is it possible that at nine years old he is found floating face down in an overflowing tub early one morning, drowned, with bruises on his neck and the marks of abuse clearly visible on his frail body?
Is it murder or accidental death? What will the autopsy reveal? Can the intricate workings of Alexander’s locked up mind ever be uncovered or understood?
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