The Innocence of Roast Chicken

The Innocence of Roast Chicken is a story of South Africa – the search for self and hope regained. Shot through with the harsh beauty of the landscape, It tells the story of a young girl’s loss of innocence in a time of great turmoil.

As her country experiences its time of greatest hope, Kate has lost faith in salvation – by politics or people. She is forced to relive her past or face losing everything.

It was one Christmas on an Eastern Cape farm that brought her face to face with the brutal realities that will change her forever. Through her child’s eyes, we experience a barefoot childhood of watermelon, warring anthills and go-karts.

But conflicts seethe beneath the idyll. A sense of impending horror builds until it culminates in a brutal act. In the growing darkness, men gather to exact their own form of revenge.

ISBN-13: 9780986987113
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My Brother’s Book

My Brother’s Book tells a story of betrayal and atonement that spans the lives of two siblings from their nomadic childhood in the Eastern Cape in the 1960s, to their adulthood in 2004 in Johannesburg.

While the nation struggles to come to terms with its past, Lily struggles with her guilt about her careless betrayal of her brother, Tom, which destroyed his life and their relationship. Tom confronts this fraught past by writing a memoir. But both Lily, and Tom’s former lover Miranda, take issue with the way his book remembers their shared pasts. The two women begin to unravel “the way it really was”. They tell a story of love and loss, of revolutionary fervour – and failure.

As the past unravels, so do Tom’s certainties about his relationship to his estranged family and to his nation. His life is thrown into further confusion and chaos as Lily uncovers a secret that will force him to confront his past. Jo-Anne Richards has written a poignant and evocative tale of the ways in which seemingly minute choices can destroy lives and relationships. My Brother’s Book explores the most intimate aspects of betrayal and deception set against the backdrop of a nation striving to understand the consequences of its terrible and traumatic past.

ISBN-13: 9781770100770
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