In Dire Straits

In a gated housing estate, a grieving Karoo widow provokes an uprising that shatters the Botoxed facades of their vanilla lives. Soon fear grows like weeds among the dying lawns, and betrayal thrives behind the illegally watered rosebuses - before real danger emerges beneath the streets of Cape Town itself.

Set amid the volatility and hysteria of the worst water crisis the area has ever faced, In Dire STraits is a novl by six women whose horrifying personal tale merges in a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction climax of nightmarish proportions.