The Singing Girl

Suburban houses shimmer in sunshine. Time drags and doors are bolted against the dark. Gentle Albert, who left his wife and child to seek work in the golden city, is a cleaner by day and poet by night. He and Beauty, the silent cook, live in a different world from their Jewish employers - Oscar, a doctor and weekend gardener, his wife, Eve, and their eight year old daughter, Alice - until tragedy strikes. Set in 1967, in 'Whites only' Johannesburg, The Singing Girl is an evocative tale of Jewish