Margaret Ballion pushes herself hard, the single and fiercely protective mother of a teenage girl, an executive in a biotechnology company developing gene therapies and chemotherapy regimes, running
Another day of high school hell for Kurt, bullied in class with teachers turning a blind eye, bullied in the corridors, bullied on the way home, the anger
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Gina Moen’s life is good, popular at work, her wedding only two weeks away, and with her friends planning a bachelorette party with some surprises in store, not
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Black hands scrub white floor tiles and dust the framed photographs, portraits of a white upper-class Capetown family for whom Mavis has served many years. Her own son
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