The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg

The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg

Rhodesia - a place of great beauty, but also of terrible, man-made, tragedy. The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam is, above all else, a magical evocation of childhood; at times laugh-out-loud funny, at others heartbreakingly sad. It tells the story of two young sisters, Nyree and Cia O'Callohan, who live on a remote farm in the East of what was Rhodesia in the late 1970s. Beneath the dripping vines of the Vumba rainforest, and under the tutelage of their heretical grandfather, Oupa, theirs is a seductive world laced with African paganism, bastardised Catholicism and the lore of the Brothers Grimm - until their idyll is shattered forever by their orphaned cousin, Ronin. His arrival at the farm sets in motion a chain of events that result in tragedy and the loss of innocence.

** 'Full of memorable characters and flavoured with the intensity of childhood, this is a debut that stays with the reader long after the last page is read' WATERSTONE'S BOOKS QUARTERLY 'An evocative debut.. told from the vantage point of an eight-year-old girl growing up on an isolated farm: a small world in human terms but enriched by the sights and smells of Africa' MAIL ON SUNDAY

Lauren Liebenberg was born in what was Rhodesia and spent her early childhood in the crucible of the civil war. She now lives in South Africa and has an MBA from the business school of the University of Witwatersrand. She is married to an Englishman and has two young children.

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ISBN 13	9781844084647
ISBN 10	1844084647
Title	The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam
Author	Lauren Liebenberg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2008-03-31
Number of pages	256
Prizes	Short-listed for Orange Award for New Writers 2008
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.