3 books by Annica Foxcroft - There Are Ants in my Sugar / More Ants / Ants in the Big Onion

3 books by Annica Foxcroft 

Medium soft covers
Very good condition

There Are Ants in my Sugar

This is the warm hearted, engaging and humorous account of Annica Foxcroft's exile to a pondokkie in the country, when unexpected financial hardship overtook her family during the 1960s.
Annica is a sassy young woman to whom the city chic of Johannesburg, and the dire warnings of her decorator friend Harry, still cling like French perfume, as she is dumped unceremoniously on a plot in the dark, landing on a pile of blackjacks. She has to adapt and make a home for her baby daughter and aging husband amidst boreholes, long drops and Aga stoves.
She comes to terms with her neighbours, Joshua, a practising Sangoma, and Ben, a Jewish pig farmer; is educated in the ways of the Practical by her indomitable maid May; and comes of age through her determined efforts to create things of beauty amidst the khakibos - a lawn and poetry. She even restores the family fortune by engaging in a lucrative and uniquely South African venture.

More Ants!

In More Ants! new and engaging characters appear with quirky unexpectedness. They irresistibly draw us deeper into the South Africa of the 60s, to the rural backwaters where forbidden romance, intrigue, robberies and shootings are daily staples. A 25-year-old illegal love affair across the colour bar resurfaces and presents the eccentric tiny community with a cultural problem of bewildering magnitude. How they resolve it is this side-splitting story, each individual contributing their own exuberantly different cultural recipe for life and love. This is a rollicking trip back to the South Africa of the 60s. Give this book to someone you love and watch them laugh.

Ants in the Big Onion

In the raging metropolis of Meyerton, a small group of South Africans cluster around a B&B, splashing in the deep end of the new South Africa. May used to be a maid, but now shes in business with her former madam, Annica. Together they run the Fox Zulu where its riotous guests have to learn to adapt to all the excitements of the love affairs across every taboo, the neighbourhood brothelkeeper at breakfast, Harrys shebeen and a lonely snake. Ants in the Big Onion is enough to taunt every cultural perception and stain even the most enduring friendship, but all visitors check in for a bakkieload of laughs.