Hester Beukes

Hester Beukes was born in South Africa in 1927. She started a farm and raised three children with her husband in the British Colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Tempering the boredom of living in a remote and foreign location, she embraced every opportunity from sewing couture garments to award winning gardening. Seeking to expand her horizons, Hester – a native Afrikaans speaker - challenged herself to learn the English language. Starting with a dictionary, she studied until she could read, write and speak fluently.

Her fascination with words and interest in history led her to, at the age of seventy-five, begin turning her Christian faith journals into novels. Seventeen years, and multiple completed works later, at ninety-one years of age, her current aspiration is to see her work shared around the world.

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PUBLISHED BOOKS:

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Sarah's Tent

Yinni

Not What You Think

In for a Penny: The Dawn of South Africa I

In for a Pound: The Dawn of South Africa II