Star of the Morning by Pamela Jooste
STAR OF THE MORNING
A new bestseller from Pamela Jooste!
Star of the Morning is the latest novel by acclaimed South African author Pamela Jooste. It tells the story of Ruby and Rose, two Cape Town sisters who live on the poor side of town. Their lives are torn apart when their father is killed and their mother dies shortly thereafter. The girls’ destinies are entrusted to their “respectable” Auntie Olive. Ashamed of her sister’s children, whose poverty she believes will reflect on her own status, she outsources their care to the nuns at the Sacred Heart orphanage, granting them a visit for Sunday lunch once a month.
Jooste sensitively explores the special bond shared between sisters as we follow the lives of Ruby and Rose, from their days at the orphanage and Sunday lunch with Auntie Olive to Ruby’s first job ‘in service’ at a Dock Road hotel and Rose’s marriage, through love, death, scandal and the major sea changes that take place in the world around them.
Star of the Morning is about relationships, about overcoming adversity, love, heartbreak and joy. It’s about lives that may seem small from the outside but that are more than big enough to absorb and poignantly reflect the whole spectrum that life has to offer, joy, adversity, laughter and tears, the things that we say, and the things that we all too often regret leaving unsaid.
Jooste’s previous books include the award-winning, Dance with a Poor Man’s Daughter, Frieda and Min, Like Water in Wild Places, and People Like Ourselves.
Star of the Morning by Pamela Jooste is available from Random House. The book is available from February 2007 at a recommended retail price of R176.
Issued on behalf of Random House by Laura Boon Communications. For further information contact Laura Boon or Kim Rudman on (011) 658-1581 or laura@lbcommunications.co.za
A new bestseller from Pamela Jooste!
Star of the Morning is the latest novel by acclaimed South African author Pamela Jooste. It tells the story of Ruby and Rose, two Cape Town sisters who live on the poor side of town. Their lives are torn apart when their father is killed and their mother dies shortly thereafter. The girls’ destinies are entrusted to their “respectable” Auntie Olive. Ashamed of her sister’s children, whose poverty she believes will reflect on her own status, she outsources their care to the nuns at the Sacred Heart orphanage, granting them a visit for Sunday lunch once a month.
Jooste sensitively explores the special bond shared between sisters as we follow the lives of Ruby and Rose, from their days at the orphanage and Sunday lunch with Auntie Olive to Ruby’s first job ‘in service’ at a Dock Road hotel and Rose’s marriage, through love, death, scandal and the major sea changes that take place in the world around them.
Star of the Morning is about relationships, about overcoming adversity, love, heartbreak and joy. It’s about lives that may seem small from the outside but that are more than big enough to absorb and poignantly reflect the whole spectrum that life has to offer, joy, adversity, laughter and tears, the things that we say, and the things that we all too often regret leaving unsaid.
Jooste’s previous books include the award-winning, Dance with a Poor Man’s Daughter, Frieda and Min, Like Water in Wild Places, and People Like Ourselves.
Star of the Morning by Pamela Jooste is available from Random House. The book is available from February 2007 at a recommended retail price of R176.
Issued on behalf of Random House by Laura Boon Communications. For further information contact Laura Boon or Kim Rudman on (011) 658-1581 or laura@lbcommunications.co.za
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