Book launch: Star of the Morning by Pamela Jooste

Random House is pleased to announce the publication of Star of the Morning, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Jooste. Please join us for the international launch in Cape Town later this month.

Star of the Morning follows the lives of two Cape Town sisters, Ruby and Rose. Within their own social grouping, the sisters live at the poor end of town. When their mother dies shortly after their father, Ruby and Rose are dependent on their “respectable” Auntie Olive, who outsources their upbringing to the nuns at the Sacred Heart orphanage.

The sisters stick together through their days in the orphanage; through monthly Sunday lunches at Auntie Olive’s table; through separation when Ruby, the eldest, is sent out to work; and through love, death, marriage and major sea changes in the world around them.

Pamela Jooste is previously the author of Dance with a Poor Man’s Daughter, Frieda and Min, Like Water in Wild Places and People Like Ourselves.

Event Details

• Date: February 21 2007
• Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
• Venue: Welgemeend, 129 Kloof St., Gardens
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• Refreshments will be served
• RSVP: Laura Boon, laura@lbcommunications.co.za, 083 659 3166

Book Details

• Star of the Morning, Pamela Jooste
• Book EAN: 9780385610902
• Purchase a copy!

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