MARKED

152pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2024

Teen novel.

James and his mother leave Johannesburg to live with his grandmother in Kalk Bay, a seaside suburb in Cape Town. Will James have the courage to to swim, revealing the birthmark on his torso that he has kept hidden all his life?

Gillian D’achada lives in Kalk Bay. She is the author of the teen novel Sharkey's Son.