FLORA

288pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2022

Afrikaans novel set in the rural northern Cape. After her mothers death, twelve-year-old Flora tries her best to look after her two younger siblings.

Engela Ovies was born in 1968 in Onseepkans, a tiny border post between the Northern Cape and Namibia, and lives in Noudonsies near Augrabies. Her debut novel, Draairivier, was published in 2020.