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Synopsis
24-year-old Caitlin Davies was studying in America when she met and fell in love with the enigmatic Ron. When Ron returned to his home in Botswana, Caitlin joined him in Maun, the 'Place of Reeds', and the two began their lives together. Eager to absorb all that Setswana culture had to offer, Caitlin found herself becoming part of Ron's extended family, falling in love with both the country and its people. Eventually, with the birth of their daughter, Caitlin's happiness seemed complete. But the Botswana of the 1990s was changing. AIDS and urbanization had taken their toll, violence was on the increase. When, with her child in her arms, Caitlin was brutally attacked, Ron's family closed ranks and Caitlin found herself ostracized by the very people she had grown to love. Passionate, hilarious, dramatic and heartbreaking in turn, PLACE OF REEDS is a story of the clash of cultures, the inflexibility of belief and traditions. It's a story about women - about Caitlin and her daughter, about Eliah and Madintwa, Ron's formidable mother and grandmother. Most of all, it's a story about one woman's courage, resilience - and ultimately, survival.
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Review
Davies's prose is elegant and spare, her descriptions of the landscape are evocative -- Sunday Times, June 5, 2005
Her moving story encompasses the spectrum of human emotion, and is hilarious and poignant in equal measure -- Waterstone's Books Quarterly, June, 2005
devastating -- Evening Standard, June 1, 2005
Synopsis
Caitlin Davies was in her twenties when she met and fell in love with Ron. When Ron returned to his home in Botswana, Caitlin joined him in Maun, the 'Place of Reeds'. Eager to absorb the culture of the Setswana, the headstrong Londoner became part of Ron's large extended family, and fell in love with both the country and its people. Eventually, with the birth of their daughter Ruby, Caitlin's happiness seemed complete...But the Botswana of the 1990s was changing. AIDS had taken its toll; violence was on the increase. When, with her child in her arms, Caitlin was brutally attacked, Ron's family closed ranks and Caitlin found herself ostracised by the people she had grown to love...
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