This week’s Book of the Week carries on the theme of Black History Month.
Is hope a leap into the darkness or the only
reason to keep fighting? Set in newly independent Zimbabwe, 15 year-old Shamiso is struggling to come to terms with the death of her journalist father and has
been uprooted from Slough to her home country. She meets Tanyaradzwa who is
battling serious illness. Both have different ideas of whether hope is worth
it. This novel paints a vivid picture of a struggling new country and the
difficulties it was getting in to as well as the mess the colonists had left it
in. It made me wonder whether the so called ’Bread basket of Africa’ (Zimbabwe) could have
been saved and whose fault it was that it wasn’t. A great read!
Mrs Godden