Linzi Glass è un'autrice profondamente impegnata nei temi del salvataggio e della riabilitazione degli animali. La sua vasta esperienza nel lavoro di salvataggio degli animali e come co-fondatrice di The Forgotten Dog Foundation, dedicata ad aiutare cani bisognosi, informa la sua scrittura. Le sue narrazioni esplorano spesso le profonde connessioni tra esseri umani e animali, evidenziando la resilienza e la ricerca di una seconda possibilità. Oltre alla sua scrittura creativa, condivide la sua passione ed esperienza insegnando e consulendo sulla scrittura, coltivando la prossima generazione di narratori.
In Ruby Winters' world, colour opens some doors and slams others shut. Her Johannesburg neighbourhood is a far cry from the streets of Soweto where anger and hatred simmer under the surface. Ruby can't resist the blue-eyed Afrikaans boy who brings her the rush of first love, but whose presence also brings hushed whispers and disapproving glances.
Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass's debut.As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and father have always been eager to take in travelers and vagabonds, relying on the presence of outsiders to ease the tension between them. Emily has her gentle older sister, Sarah, and Buza, the old Zulu nightwatchman, for company and comfort. But her parents' continuing discontent leads them to welcome some peculiar strangers. One spring, a family of wanderers--a wildlife photographer, his wife, and two boys--comes to stay, and their strange, compelling, and dangerous presence will leave the Iris family infinitely changed.
Südafrika, 1976: Die 17-jährige Ruby lebt in einem ruhigen Weißenviertel von Johannesburg. Doch was ihre Klassenkameraden nicht wissen dürfen: Rubys Familie engagiert sich gegen die Politik der Apartheid. Als die Mutter, eine bekannte Galeristin, den Maler Julian bei ihnen zu Hause versteckt, wird Rubys Leben zum Balanceakt. Sie fühlt sich zu dem jungen Schwarzen hingezogen und ist von seiner Kunst zutiefst berührt. Zwischen ihr und Julian entwickelt sich eine enge Freundschaft. Doch niemand darf davon erfahren, auch nicht Rubys weißer Freund. Ruby ist hin- und hergerissen. Kann Liebe stärker sein als Rassismus und Hass? Als Julian verhaftet wird, muss sich Ruby entscheiden.