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A POOR SEASON FOR WHALES
Intelligent, compelling and funny novel from the award-winning author
Pitch perfect. A clever, bitingly funny novel. It had me riveted.' Finuala Dowling
Margaret Crowley, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly fifty-six years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. It was therefore hardly to be foreseen that in her fifty-sixth year she would kill a man with a kitchen knife.'
When, after twenty-six years of marriage, Margaret Crowley's husband leaves her for a younger man, she has to rethink her priorities and consider her options: as a free agent, with no appurtenances, how best to turn that freedom into a meaningful future rather than a mulling over of the past?
Opting to leave behind her support system of family and friends, she moves to a seaside town with her dog Benjy, intent upon a simple, uncluttered existence. But simplicity, it seems, can be a complicated affair.
When the charismatic young Jimmy Prinsloo-Mazibuko enters her life and her home, apparently intent upon establishing himself as a general-purpose handyman and cook, she finds herself torn between distrust and attraction.
Is he merely the helpful, cheerful young man he seems, or is there a darker purpose to his assistance?
Professor Emeritus in English at Stellenbosch University. He is the translator of Marlene van Niekerk's AGAAT (shortlisted for the International Foreign Fiction Prize and the Man Booker International), as well as Willem Anker's RED DOG, longlisted for the International Booker 2020. Winner of various prizes for journalism and translation, he was a Civitella Ranieri Fellow in 2012.
Margaret Crowley, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly fifty-six years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. It was therefore hardly to be foreseen that in her fifty-sixth year she would kill a man with a kitchen knife.'
When, after twenty-six years of marriage, Margaret Crowley's husband leaves her for a younger man, she has to rethink her priorities and consider her options: as a free agent, with no appurtenances, how best to turn that freedom into a meaningful future rather than a mulling over of the past?
Opting to leave behind her support system of family and friends, she moves to a seaside town with her dog Benjy, intent upon a simple, uncluttered existence. But simplicity, it seems, can be a complicated affair.
When the charismatic young Jimmy Prinsloo-Mazibuko enters her life and her home, apparently intent upon establishing himself as a general-purpose handyman and cook, she finds herself torn between distrust and attraction.
Is he merely the helpful, cheerful young man he seems, or is there a darker purpose to his assistance?
Professor Emeritus in English at Stellenbosch University. He is the translator of Marlene van Niekerk's AGAAT (shortlisted for the International Foreign Fiction Prize and the Man Booker International), as well as Willem Anker's RED DOG, longlisted for the International Booker 2020. Winner of various prizes for journalism and translation, he was a Civitella Ranieri Fellow in 2012.
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Published 2020-03-01 by Jonathan Ball |