Malla Nunn is a Swaziland-born Australian screenwriter, film director and author. Her works include the murder mysteries A Beautiful Place to Die and Let the Dead Lie, as well as the award-winning young adult novel, When the Ground Is Hard. [Source: Wikipedia]
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At Keziah Christian Academy, a boarding school in Swaziland, sixteen-year-old Adele Joubert is one of the top girls. She's well-mannered, a good student and, most importantly, has a white father who can pay her school fees. But on the bus back to Keziah after holiday break, Adele discovers she's been replaced by a new top girl - one whose father is wealthier than her own. Worse still, Adele now has to share a room with Lottie Diamond, a poor outcast who likes to fight and doesn't follow the rules. Soon Adele is forced to make a choice: betray Lottie to regain her social status or forge ahead with her new friend and become an outcast herself. But before Adele can decide, tragedy strikes the school, and the two girls find themselves investigating the suspicious circumstances of a classmate's disappearance.
From Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and a powerful story of how friendship saves and heals. When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. This one involves Amandla wearing a bedsheet loosely stitched as a dress. An outfit, her mother says, is certain to bring Amandla's father back home, as if he were the prince and this was the fairytale ending their family was destined for. But in truth, Amandla's father has long been gone--since before Amandla was born--and even her mother's memory of him is hazy. In fact, many of her mother's memories from before Amandla was born are hazy. It's just one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give them strange looks--that and the fact her mother is white and Amandla is Black. When Amandla finds a mysterious address in the bottom of her mother's handbag along with a large amount of cash, she decides it's finally time to get answers about her mother's life. What she discovers will change the shape and size of her family forever. But with her best friends at her side, Amandla is ready to take on family secrets and the devil himself. These Sugar Town queens are ready to take over the world to expose the hard truths of their lives.
