Any Girl - Rooyen, Caroline van
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In South Africa, in every thirty seconds a woman is raped. July Abraham, a girl at an elite school in Pretoria, South Africa, never imagined she could stop a rapist, until she falls over a classmate, Andie, in the gardens at Mark's party. Finding Andie, who has just been raped, shatters the lie that has silenced July. Now she knows that this man attacks any girl because he can. People deny or hide the crime; the cops leave him alone. She resolves to find this man and disarm him. But first she will have to confront his gang of thugs who find vulnerable girls for him. In this risky endeavour, she enlists two classmates.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In South Africa, in every thirty seconds a woman is raped. July Abraham, a girl at an elite school in Pretoria, South Africa, never imagined she could stop a rapist, until she falls over a classmate, Andie, in the gardens at Mark's party. Finding Andie, who has just been raped, shatters the lie that has silenced July. Now she knows that this man attacks any girl because he can. People deny or hide the crime; the cops leave him alone. She resolves to find this man and disarm him. But first she will have to confront his gang of thugs who find vulnerable girls for him. In this risky endeavour, she enlists two classmates.
Autorenporträt
Caroline van Rooyen was born in Britain and grew up in South Africa. She attended the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, after which she taught high schools, including a wealthy Johannesburg all-boys private school and an inner-city Pretoria government school. In 1998 she moved to Canada and began her writing career. In 2003 her short story "Heart Space" was short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards, and in 2006, another story, "Across the Edge," reached the Top Ten of the Lichen Arts and Letters Preview, International Fiction Contest. She lives in Beaumont, Alberta.