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Our Lifelong Learning KZN affiliate invites you to hear Durban author , Wendy Clark , speak at the launch of her debut published novel .

Date : Tues 05 October Time : 5.30 for 6.00 pm Venue : Adams Booksellers , Musgrave Centre Durban ph : 031-319-4450

Rsvp : phone Beverley Keyser 031 319 4300 or email cedric@adamsbooks.co.za

Becoming
Wendy Clark

Becoming is the story of two university friends, Alison and Marilyn, who meet again after 31 years of silence. A chance meeting later in life forces both women to revisit the dramatic incident that destroyed their friendship all those years ago. As they reconnect, both women are forced to look at parts of themselves that they have long kept hidden from themselves and other people. Alison, a repressed middle–aged housewife, is in a secure but unexciting marriage, and is inwardly searching for a break from the tedium of her existence. Marilyn, outwardly glamorous and successful, conceals the scars of bitter disappointment and heartbreak.

Becoming is a novel about coming of age; it is about how we can become whole despite our circumstances or our pasts. It is a novel about sexuality, and it also deals with the difficult subject of female genital mutilation. Set in modern–day South Africa, the book was inspired by a real facts–of–life book of 1950s vintage, entitled On Becoming a Woman by Harold Shryock, which at one time was in circulation in South Africa.

About the author
Wendy Clark began writing for pleasure at the age of 8. She grew up in South Africa and studied law at the University of Natal in Durban. She qualified as an attorney but preferred criminal law, and so became a public prosecutor in 1986. After ten years in the criminal courts she was promoted to the rank of Senior Public Prosecutor at the Verulam court in 1996, and in November 2006 she took up a prosecuting post with the Directorate of Special Operations. Her experiences in the courts have often provided the inspiration for her stories.

Cedric Sissing

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