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Nineteen Seventy-

Six

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Robert Dewar

KEY SELLING POINTS

AlovestoryissetagainstthedramaticbackdropofhugelysignificantpoliticalandsocialeventsinSouth
Africa.
1976wasawatershedyearinSouthAfrica’shistory,whentheSowetoUprisingsawtheoutbreakofviolence
and racial unrest across the country, including Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula.
Inspiredbytheauthor’sfondmemoriesofhisyoungmanhoodintheCapePeninsula.

OnthebeautifulCapePeninsular,agreathousebuiltonthemountainsidegazes outonalimitlesssouthern
ocean. By 1976 it had become a residential hotel, and Richard Channing, its proprietor, had personal problems
moreburdensomeeventhanaperennialshortageof funds.Richardwasdisappointedwithlife:trappedina
lovelessmarriage,increasinglyalienatedfromhisson,andunabletoseeawayforward.Butthenhisdistant
cousin, a lovely young English girl, arrives on what becomes a lengthy and extended visit, and everything begins
to change for Richard.
Atthesame time, dramaticeventsaretakingplaceinSouthAfrica.Onlytwoweeksearlierthereoccursapolice
massacreofblackstudentsinSoweto,aneventwhichtriggersawaveofcountry-widemarches,
demonstrations and strikes by members of the black and coloured communities. South Africa is engulfed by
unrestandperiodicviolence-notall of whichtheresidentsof thegreathouseonitslonelymountainsideare
abletoavoid.

Richard, however, is in love. And the outcome of this love, and the consequences of his lovely young cousin’s
visit,willtakemanyyearsbeforetheycanbefullyrealised.FortheyoungEnglishgirl’svisitwillcauseas
dramatic a change in Richard’s and his family’s lives, as the Soweto Youth Uprising will bring about in South
Africa’s social and political life.

Robert Dewar wasborn in East Africainthemid 1950s, andwaseducatedin South Africa. Hehasadegree in
History. As ayoung man heworked as afield guidein SouthernAfrica, and as agameranger.In lateryears he
workedasabusinessresearcherandwriter.HehaslivedinEastAfrica,SouthAfrica,Namibia, theUnited
Kingdom,Malta,andtheFarEast.He nowlivesintheScottishHighlands.

Publication Date: 28th October 2024 £10.99 ISBN: 9781836280132
Thema subject category: FBA – Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
paperback 216 x 138 mm 256 pp Portrait Author location: Inverness

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