ABOUT THE BOOK

FINDING MY OWN WAY...to happy & gay is an often amusing, often heart-breaking account of the coming out process for a lesbian in 60s South Africa. The author locates her life in the context of so much oppression. And the contrast of the fear behind the apartheid laws, and how completely unthreatening her voice is, works powerfully.

   As South Africa grew into democracy so the author too grew into wholeness and authenticity. But it wasn’t all sliding along ...