Under the African Sun

The book, Under the African Sun, by South African Author, Gail Gilbride

Remember that desperate time after university when career choices are made intertwined with mating matters? Love, desire, work, all jostle for time and space in a swirl of emotion and choice, set on South Africa’s 1970s stage with the grim backdrop of apartheid’s security police looming.

Deborah Morley is an intern on a Cape Town newspaper. She’s told to shadow Charlie, the political reporter, and she gets to listen to the Prime Minister’s shocking speech and observe the reporting of it. She begins to have doubts about her choice of a news journalist career. What she really wants is a fairy tale wedding and a picket fence future in the suburbs. But her country is being torn apart by unrest and she’s in love with Chris, a Politics lecturer at the university.

Publisher: Cactus Rain Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-9962812-5-6
Genre: Political Fiction, South Africa
Format: Print
Pages: 208

 

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In her story of love in a time of turmoil, Gail Gilbride has captured the fear, the excitement, the danger of a country on the brink. Through a young woman’s coming of age, she documents also that of a society.
Peter Sullivan
Former Editor of The Johannesburg Star
Gail Gilbride’s Under the African Sun asks whether love can survive the turmoil and ideological confusion of South Africa’s political liberation. The answers it provides are both provocative and inspiring.
Dr Jo-Anne Richards
Mentor at allaboutwritingcourses.com
A hauntingly beautiful love story set against difficult times in South Africa. I carry it with me in my heart.
Richard Beynon
Mentor at allaboutwritingcourses.com
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