Boy Next Door

*Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers*

''Entertaining, ambitious and packed with news from elsewhere, leavened by the precious optimism of youth. Don''t miss it.'' Independent

A powerful love story set in post-independence Zimbabwe as it slides towards chaos.

''Two days after I turned fourteen the son of our neighbour set his stepmother alight.''

Or so Lindiwe Bishop believes, though eighteen mo...