The Fetch - Finuala Dowling

The coastal settlement of Slangkop near Cape Town comes alive over weekends when mercurial Chas Fawkes holds court at Midden House. Shy, plump librarian Nina Browne is smitten even before she is invited to one of his legendary parties to Nina, Chas is life itself, an irresistible force that promises to remake her world. But things are not quite as they seem on the glittering surface, as Nina is about to discover.

In this elegant new novel, multi award-winning poet and novelist Finuala Dowling skillfully conjures the inhabitants of an eccentric seaside community. The hermit-like environmentalist William; quietly-indomitable Fundiswa and her famous lover; stoic Emmanuel and Chas's ex-wife, the exhibitionist, Dolly - all of whom orbit Midden House and the man who inhabits it.

The Fetch is a novel full of wit, humour and humanity, a novel of moods and sea-changes, a novel in which sex raises questions that love must answer.

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