The Sea of Wise Insects in Stellenbosch, Western Cape for sale
Tema:
Fiction
Soort:
Novels
Fate has it in for the oddball loner secretary Alice Wolfe. Not only has she lost her dog, Pluto, her husband to be, Ralph, and a finger, but she's about to lose her freedom. Her body is covered in scars from accidents over the years, and everyone she's ever loved has mysteriously disappeared. She claims she's a magnet for bad luck. But others see her as a brooding misfit with a missing finger, a borderline cutter, a stitched up freak show. Following the death of her brother's beautiful, superficial fiancee, Veronica, in a sinister car accident on Table Mountain, Alice is arrested. As the trial hurtles towards her, Alice interrogates her past. What could her memories of the macabre Hotel Tisca in London, where she fell in love with her enigmatic ex-fiance Ralph, have to do with Veronica's death? What is Alice's family hiding? Where are Ralph and her brother Andrew and what really happened to her dog Pluto? Do the answers lie in a chilling, badly written novella, 'The Sea of Wise Insects', which Alice is convinced Ralph wrote? Or will Alice's journey through her warped memory world ? an offbeat landscape of betrayal, love, luck, secrets, mutilation and death ? really be able to shed any light on her dark past?
Bibliographic information
Title The Sea of Wise Insects
Author Terry Westby-Nunn
Publisher Jacana Media, 2011, Trade Paperback
ISBN 1431401668, 9781431401666
Length 320 pages
