Black South Africans have no rights and terrible living conditions in their own country and the visiting South African Springbok Rugby Team will be all white.
It’s not long before the whole family is caught up in it too, as most of NZ are with the upcoming Springbok Tour and the surfacing arguments. Her father is a reporter and he is always glued to the news. Her best friend is Rewi who she has known since kindergarten, and she lives with her mum, dad and siblings, Pete and Jo. The reader is taken back to 1981 – to when Eliza is 15, attending an all girls Catholic High School, with many nuns as teachers.
It’s not long before she begins to write. Jesse suggests she gives them an update every evening from her writing that day. “Did you ever have anything that affected the whole country like this when you were a teenager?”Įliza begins to tell her about the Springbok Rugby Tour of 1981 and how it divided the country, with opposing views tearing apart friends, neighbours, and even families.Įva suggests that Eliza write about it, now that she is stuck at home and without her journalism job to go back to. Eva marvels at how the entire country has come to a standstill, like many countries around the world, in order to protect the spread of the Covid-19 virus. It is the first week of the March 2020 Covid-19 national lockdown of New Zealand. IN OUR OWN BACK YARD by Anne Kayes (Bateman)įorty years ago, sport and politics collided as the 1981 Springbok tour divided the nation.Eliza, her husband Ross and teenage children Jesse and Eva are at home in their family bubble. THE OTHER SISTER by Philippa Werry (Pipi Press)Ī heartwarming sequel to The Telegram, covering the grim reality facing nurses working in rehab – think amputee and blind soldiers – and in pandemic recovery, through the eyes of Beaty’s younger sister, Tilly But is their local source friend or foe? The winner of this year’s PM’s award for fiction creates believable, historically accurate characters that speak to today’s teens. Kiwi signaller Frank, his buddy Wally and Aussie Les set up a cliff top vantage point looking across at Bougainville.
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