SHIFTING COLOURS | FIONA SUSSMAN IN SOUTH AFRICA

Author: Fiona Sussman Publisher: Allison and Busby (2014) ISBN-10: 0749016124 ISBN-13: 9780749016128 Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 303 Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.3 x 2.2 cm +++ by Fiona Sussman +++ Celia Mphephu works as a maid for Mr and Mrs Steiner in a leafy, white man's suburb of 1960s Johannesburg. When racial tensions in the country reach fever pitch and the Steiners plan to relocate to England, they offer to adopt Celia's young daughter Miriam and raise her as their own. But Miriam finds England to be very different to the place the Steiners have told her about. And so begins her long journey through the years, back to South Africa, to find her mother and herself. Set against the violent backdrop of apartheid South Africa and then the calm of late twentieth century Britain, Shifting Colours traces the lives of a mother and daughter separated by land, sea and heart-rending circumstance.