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"Immediately engaging, vivid and buzzing with energy, The Boy Next Door is the work of a true storyteller."
"At heart a love story, it is also so much more as, through the experiences of its charismatic protagonists, it charts the first two decades of the emerging Zimbabwe with honesty, humour and humanity.
"Irene Sabatini has written an important book that will enchant readers and which marks the emergence of a serious new talent.”
Di Spiers, Editor of Readings at BBC Radio 4,
Chair of Judges, 2010 Orange Award for New Writers
Vividly evoking the traumatic history of a nation once brimming with promise, THE BOY NEXT DOOR tells an engrossing, unpredictable story of love against the odds, and of the shadows cast by the past.
THE BOY NEXT DOOR is an astonishing, brilliant debut novel about what it means to witness, to change, to love, and to remain whole when the world outside is falling apart.
Synopsis
In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, the son of Lindiwe Bishop's white neighbour, seventeen-