How to Hide Inside a Three - by Jane van der Riet - Paperback

Paperback
Condition: Excellent
ISBN 9781485904793
Published: 2023

Its 2017 in Cape Town. The dams are empty. Theres a gangster in charge of the country. Leigh-Anne may look like shes keeping it together in her Southern suburbs world, but really shes unravelling. A letter has arrived from her ageing dad, asking forgiveness for some unknown sordid deed. What on earth is that about? Then theres the tortuous sex with her psychiatrist husband Samuel and the fact that she cant stop fantasising about her colleague Omar. Inexplicably, one of her kids is wetting the bed while the other ones turning into a little tyrant. Her batty best friend continues to offload her crises the latest is a paternity test for Gwendals troubled teenage daughter. Meanwhile, Leigh-Annes supposed to be organising a play about sexual abuse with grade sevens in Gugulethu. Its not going very well.
 
How is a woman supposed to cope? With chocolate and wine, of course, and by making plenty of lists (things feel much more manageable when you write them down in threes). But all is not what it seems. Leigh-Anne has a secret of her own. In her quest for answers, she will have to betray everyone she loves; only then can she truly come out of hiding.

ABOUT THE WRITER:

Van der Riet grew up in Cape Town and joined the anti-apartheid struggle as a student. She has worked at the Social Change Assistance Trust, the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture, and as a student counsellor at the University of Cape Town. She still lives in Cape Town, where she practises as a psychotherapist.