PEOPLE OF THE SHADOWS, a novel

257pp., paperback, Durban, 2021

Novel set in South Africa in the 1960s. Nat Jacobs struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction after his family are forcefully removed from their home in Overport, Durban, under the Group Areas Act.

Elwyn Bonhomme was born in 1946 in Durban. He retired as Principal of Charles Hugo  Primary School in 2006. He is the author of two historical novels, Chasing of the Wind and Did You Tell Them?