Once We Were Sisters

Once We Were Sisters

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Publisher's Synopsis

Once We Were Sisters is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler. Growing up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa, the girls plan grand lives for themselves that will bring them out of the long shadow cast by their father's death and their overbearing mother's bullying.

Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday when her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to South Africa, determined to find answers to her sister's sudden death at the hands of her husband.

More haunting, however, are the questions. How had she failed to protect her sister? Was Maxine's murder a matter of accident, or destiny? What lies in the soil of their troubled motherland that condemns its women to such violence?

Powerful, moving and tragic, Once We Were Sisters is an act of love, an extraordinary account of an unspeakable loss.

Book information

ISBN: 9781782119975
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate
Pub date:
DEWEY: 828.91409
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 242
Weight: 388g
Height: 145mm
Width: 223mm
Spine width: 33mm