HEAVEN FORBID | CHRISTOPHER HOPE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Author: Christopher Hope Publisher: Macmillan (2002) ISBN-10: 0333724658 ISBN-13: 9780333724651 Condition: Very Good. The DJ has some light creasing along top edge with a tiny closed tear along rear bottom edge. Else an internally clean, unread copy. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket Pages: 327 Dimensions: 22.2 x 14.1 x 2.8 cm +++ by Christopher Hope +++ This is an unforgettable, highly acclaimed novel of African childhood by a prize winning author. In the jacaranda leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world. It is 1948 and life is full of buoyant childish rhymes and his colourful, Irish extended family. But this cozy world of fixed certainties is about to end as Martin's tale turns to one of political and personal tragedy.