“Vivid, frank and starkly intimate”: Bitter Eden [Book review]: He was brought to South Africa when he was three, orphaned when his parents died of ‘flu and was raised as John Charlton by Christian foster parents. At 17 he ran away from school and wrote his first novel Broken Earth, published by Hutchinson in London. Source: "South Africa" - BingNews Autumn international: … [Read more...] about SA News: “Vivid, frank and starkly intimate”: Bitter Eden [Book review]