LAASTE KANS

283pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2023

A group of friends get together for the first time in twenty-five years to celebrate Adriaan's seventieth birthday at his beach house on the West Coast.

Marita van der Vyver (b. 1958) grew up in Cape Town. She is the author of Griet Skryf ‘n Sprokie (1992 M-Net, Eugène Marais and ATKV Prizes) and several other novels for adults and young adults. Griet Skryf "n Sprokie was translated into English as Entertaining Angels. She lives in the South of France.