BESSIE SE HANGKASBIBLIOTEEK

289pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2024

Widow Bessie Botha lives with her brother on a small holding outside Bloemfontein, takes pity on children and animals, and loves to interfere on other people's business.

Madeleine Rust is the author of Vyf-en-twintig Trappe Na Benede, My naam is Legio, Lam ter slagting, Moederland, Moordhuis, Bloedlyn and Monstersraad.