The Colour of the Sun
Thorp, Gillian
One hot June afternoon in Durban, South Africa, a child is born. Doctors and nurses marvel because the birth is one of the rarest in the world. The child, Gillian August, is born still shrouded in her amniotic sac. She is a caul baby, and in 1970s South Africa, this heralds greatness.Or it might have, had August's caul not been stolen within hours of her birth.A belief in predetermined outcomes looms large in Thorp's family, culture, and her p...