HOW THE ROBINS FLEW THEIR NEST, my mother's story

142pp., large 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Self-published, No Place, 2024

ISBN: 9780796186447

A family biography that covers three generations of Jill Thorne's mother's family, beginning with the story of her Jewish great-grandparents, who fled eastern Europe in the 1800s and settled in the Karoo. Jill Thorne's mother, librarian Colette Thorne, was an anti-apartheid activist who worked with the South African Communist Party and the Congress of Democrats in the 1950s.