In a Cape Town suburb, five women gather every Friday night to discuss their writing.  Isabel, returning home, where the writing circle is to meet, is attacked in her car at gunpoint and raped. But she manages to turn the gun on her attacker and shoot him.  In coping with the killing, the disposal of the body, and the breakdown and recovery of Isabel, we learn about the intersecting personal lives of the women – Isabel, Carmen, Jazz, Beauty and Amina, all successful professionals in today’s South Africa.  And when the body is discovered, and the identity of the attacker revealed, all their stereotypes fall away.  Narrated by all five women in their individual styles, The Writing Circle is a wholly engaging, highly suspenseful novel that holds up a mirror to the violence in women’s lives.

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The Writing Circle is a beautifully written, heartbreaking book that allows the reader to experience an intense empathy for each woman. The writers creates a pictures so that the reader can see, hear, touch and even smell the thing or scene talked about and describes a person so that the reader feels as though she has met the person. THE SOWETAN

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