BOY WHO COULD KEEP A SWAN IN HIS HEAD - HUNT, JOHN - 1KG IN SOUTH AFRICA

Poignant, witty and wise, John Hunt's The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in His Head is a meditation on being alive and shows us the power of books when we need them the most."Hillbrow, 1967. The New York of Africa. Someone wrote that the place would soon have more people per square kilometre than Tokyo. Everyone quoted that article to everyone. Some even cut it out and kept it folded in their wallets."While other boys daydream about racing cars and football, eleven-year-old stutterer Phen sits reading to his father. In number four Duchess Court, Phen's dad looks like a Spitfire pilot behind his oxygen mask.