Tsk-Tsk

Suzan Hackney

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Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
15 April 2018

Memoirs; Child abuse; Drug & substance abuse: social aspects; Ethical issues: prostitution & sex industry; Adoption & fostering

'I was made in Coffee Bay. Right there on the beach, in the sand.' From the opening lines, we are drawn in and engrossed by this startling memoir of a singular childhood. Suzan is adopted as a newborn in the late 1960s into a seemingly loving and welcoming family living in Pietermaritzburg. But Suzan is set on a collision course with, most particularly, her adoptive mother, and society, from her very beginning. Suzan's relationship with her mother is fraught with drama, which veers over into a level of emotional abuse and needless cruelty that is shocking. At the age of thirteen, Suzan is sent to a place of safety as a ward of the state, effectively 'orphaning' her. From there, she spirals out of control fighting to survive in a world of other neglected, abandoned and abused children. She becomes a 'runner', escaping at every opportunity from her various places of confinement, grabbing her schooling in snatches, living on the edges of a drug and prostitution underworld, finding love wherever she can. Suzans young life was the stuff of movies, but it is her writing, in a voice that is unforgettable and true, that transforms her memories into something magical rarely matched in South African literature. A new classic.

By: Suzan Hackney
Imprint: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781868428724
ISBN 10: 1868428729
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 15 April 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Suzan Hackney was born in Pretoria, but grew up in Pietermaritzburg, as she tells of in her memoirs Tsk-Tsk. After the events of her childhood and adolescence described here, she worked as a night-club bouncer, a stable hand on a horse stud farm and she farmed. She has grown aloes and other indigenous plants, reared orphaned and injured wildlife, and raised her own children and a few who werent her own. Suzan now manages a retreat in the southern Drakensberg.

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A beautiful memoir, written with a creative flair that many fiction writers would envy. Sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes unbearably sad, always honest, it is a gripping account of a childhood gone horribly wrong. The fact that the child survived to write this illuminating book, makes me very happy. -- Marita van der Vyver

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