Safe Houses

Human Rights Award Winner

Against the background of the escalating violence of the 1980s, this novel tells the story of three families - black, Afrikaans and Jewish - who are inextricably bound by love, hate, hope and betrayal. Other work by the author includes "The Umbrella Tree", "Another Year in Africa" and "Exiles".Set against the escalating violence of the last years of the Apartheid regime, Safe Houses tells the story of three families – the Sibiyas, the Singers, the Sterns – who are inextricably bound by love and hate, hope and betrayal. Ruth and Lola are drawn into the struggle against Apartheid, but feel marginal: it is difficult to find solutions when one is part of the problem. Can love and hope survive an evil political system that indiscriminately devours both the guilty and the innocent?