Book description
This is the third book about the author's life in South Africa. In Highveld Ways, Valerie and her daughters join her husband in Johannesburg and begin a decade of life in and around the city. During the years that follow her arrival in 1989, Valerie explores the Highveld area onâŚ
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1 author picked Highveld Ways as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The memoir is based on a female perspective of being one of an English immigrant couple living, working, and raising a family in challenging and changing South Africa, which I found a riveting read.
Valâs having to play the singular parentâwife, mother, breadwinnerâwhile putting up with her husband's self-centered behavior, I thought, was no less than soul-crushing. Her husbandâs badly formed, egoistic decision-making led him to leave her and their family in South Africa to pursue better job opportunities in the Netherlands.
Miraculously, her grit and determination not to be defeated but to rise from such an otherwise devastating separationâŚ
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