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Pat Stamatélos

Dulcie-Anne Douglas is a millionaire – on paper. Her husband died in a train accident two years ago and as soon as the policy paid out, Dulcie bought a smart house for her and her kids in Roxy, a suburb happily far away from Gumaville with its poverty and mangy mongrels.

But Gumaville doesn’t let go as easily as Dulcie would have hoped. After her sister-in-law Hanna’s funeral there’s always someone wearing down her doorstep. If it’s not her brother-in-law Sparkie, then it’s her son Ashwin’s blundering girlfriend, Lucretia, or the well-off estate agent Rocky van der Merwe. Can’t everyone just leave her in peace? And what will the neighbours think?

A tongue-in-cheek novel from the writer of Kroes and Die val van die dice. Stamatélos pokes fun at white, coloured and black alike in a satire which will cause plenty of belly laughs and sniggers, as well as head-nodding at the hilarities of our beloved country.