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    Sheila Kohler delves into the complexities of the human psyche and interpersonal relationships, often set against the tense South African landscapes she knew intimately. Her writing is characterized by sharp introspection and meticulously crafted suspense, drawing readers into a vortex of emotions and moral quandaries. Kohler explores themes of identity, oppression, and the search for freedom with remarkable sensitivity and literary skill. Her works stand as testaments to the power of narrative and literature's capacity to uncover the deepest recesses of the human soul.

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    Once We Were Sisters

    • Once We Were Sisters

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.5(11)Add rating

      This is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to the country of her birth, haunted by questions. How had she failed to protect her sister? Was Maxine's death a matter of chance, or destiny? What lies in the soil of their troubled motherland that condemns its women to such violence?

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    • Cracks

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
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      EVEN THE INNOCENT HOLD VIOLENCE IN THEIR HEARTS … A beautiful schoolgirl mysteriously disappears into the South African veld. Forty years later, thirteen members of the missing girl's swimming team gather at their old boarding school for a reunion, and look back to the long, dry weeks leading to Fiamma's disappearance. As teenage memories and emotions resurface, the women relive the horror of a long-buried secret. A stunning and singular tale of the passion and tribalism of adolescence, CRACKS lays bare the violence that lies in the heart of even the most innocent.

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    • Open Secrets

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      The lies between a husband and wife are revealed, unraveling their family in this thrilling novel that moves between the French Riviera, Switzerland, and Amagansett When Michel, a Swiss banker, discovers his wife Alice's betrayal he turns for help to a Russian client who leads him into unknown territory, endangering not only his own life but that of Alice, and above all, his fourteen-year-old daughter, Pamela. Their charmed life--a beautiful house on the French Riviera, elegant vacations, and boarding school in Switzerland for Pamela--is not all that it seems. As the repercussions of Michel's illicit deals move closer in around them, Alice finds herself in Amagansett with her artist sister who is having a crisis of her own, while the danger circles around Pamela. Open Secrets is a suspenseful novel about relationships, family, love and the inescapable consequences of one's own actions.

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      Eine junge Frau wird plötzlich gezwungen, sich mit einem verdrängten Geheimnis aus ihrer Vergangenheit auseinanderzusetzen.

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