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Frankie & Stankie is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the author's own experiences of growing up in Durban, South Africa. We follow Dinah through childhood - as she learns the realities of racism - and into adolescence, marriage and voluntary exile in London. The story of a dawning political consciousness is imaginatively drawn and the atmosphere of a changing South Africa is immensely touching. 'A beautifully written slice of both personal and political history.' The Observer

Witty and playful, this novel sees the return of some of Barbara Trapido's best-loved characters from Brother of the Famous Jack and Juggling. Starring an array of attractive eccentrics, riven with elegant coincidence, and culminating in an utterly theatrical denouement, Trapido's fable of love and loss, families and loneliness, sex and religion, is romantic as Schubert, clever as an Oxford mathematician and heartbreaking as anything.