RUSH

369pp., paperback, Silver Hare Creative, Cape Town, 2025.

ISBN: 9781049209838

Novel set in Johannesburg that intertwines the stories of two young women separated by time time, moving between the 1890s and 2006.

In 2006 fifteen-year-old Joey, escaping the danger at home, finds refuge in a decaying Gold Rush theme park, where she navigates unlikely friendships and first love and discovers secrets buried in the land. A hundred years earlier, Grace, a young Barolong woman, records her life during the Anglo-Boer War and the merciless hunt for gold in a hidden diary.

Jessica Wright Botha is a creative director and founder of the all-female studio Silver Hare Creative. Rush is her debut novel.