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Dalene Matthee - South African author

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Dalene Matthee Books

  • Circles in a Forest
  • The Mulberry Forest
  • Fiela’s Child
  • Dreamforest
  • The Day the Swallows Spoke
  • Pieternella, Daughter of Eva
  • Driftwood
Dalene Matthee achieves the impossible with this novel. And that is to charge an almost superficial but riveting story with so much wisdom that even the biggest philistine won't be untouched.
- George Weideman
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