Publisher's Synopsis
In a gated housing estate, a grieving Karoo widow provokes an uprising that shatters the Botoxed facades of those around her. Soon fear grows like weeds among the dying lawns, and betrayal thrives behind the illegally watered rosebushes - before real danger emerges beneath the streets of Cape Town itself. Set amid the volatility and hysteria of the worst water crisis the area has ever faced, In Dire Straits is a novel by six women whose horrifying personal tale merges in a truth-is-strangerthan- fiction climax of almost unbelievable proportions.
