The Shape of Him
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Sara Highbury, now forty-eight years old and the manageress of a boarding house establishment, is living in the aftermath of a love affair with Herbert Wakeford, a one-time diamond digger who is suffers from a degenerative brain condition.Now, years after their relationship ended, Sara is still haunted by Herbert and what passed between them. et against the backdrop of the early 1900s South African mines, and the vast landscapes that connected these to Cape Town, this is a story of the loss of person and identity, and the struggle to hold on to life and love.As the illness takes hold, Sara watches Herbert take up with the ghosts, blown this and that way by his thoughts.In the years that follow, he is to spend much of his life in an institution, coming to visit Sara now and then, and she him. n unlikely affair leads to Herbert being named the father of an apprentice girl s child.The baby is abandoned outside Herbert s sanatorium.Unable to keep her, he sends the child, Aloma Maggie, to Sara who reluctantly ag
Author: Gill Schierhout
Format: Hardback, 224 pages, 137mm x 220mm, 350 g
Published: 2009, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
Sara Highbury, now forty-eight years old and the manageress of a boarding house establishment, is living in the aftermath of a love affair with Herbert Wakeford, a one-time diamond digger who is suffers from a degenerative brain condition.Now, years after their relationship ended, Sara is still haunted by Herbert and what passed between them. et against the backdrop of the early 1900s South African mines, and the vast landscapes that connected these to Cape Town, this is a story of the loss of person and identity, and the struggle to hold on to life and love.As the illness takes hold, Sara watches Herbert take up with the ghosts, blown this and that way by his thoughts.In the years that follow, he is to spend much of his life in an institution, coming to visit Sara now and then, and she him. n unlikely affair leads to Herbert being named the father of an apprentice girl s child.The baby is abandoned outside Herbert s sanatorium.Unable to keep her, he sends the child, Aloma Maggie, to Sara who reluctantly ag
The Shape of Him