![]() ![]() Category: Children's::Children's Fiction ISBN: 0141382791. ![]() THE YEAR THE GYPSIES CAME is her first novel. The Year The Gypsies Came (ISBN: 9780141320922) Johannesburg, 1966: Emily’s parents shore up their disintegrating marriage by inviting a stream of visitors to their home. Enclosing all this is the incredibly close and warm relationship Emily has with the old Zulu gatekeeper, Buza, who tells her Zulu folktales to help her through and make sense of her problems. She is now a full-time writer, and has co-written three adult screenplays, and two plays. ![]() But then tragedy strikes and their lives are changed forever. Emily and Streak form a close friendship and Emily's beloved, gentle older sister Sarah takes Otis in hand. In Johannesburg, South Africa, in the late 1960s, twelve-year-old Emily, who longs for affection from her quarreling parents, finds comfort in the stories of a. One spring a family of wanderers - an Australian couple and their two boys, Streak and Otis, who is brain damaged - comes to stay. 11-year-old Emily looks forward to these guests as she knows her parents will set their quarrels aside, and, if only for a short time, be like a real family. The arrival of the gypsies changes them all forever and. In Johannesburg in the late 1960s, the Iris family take in house guests from time to time to diffuse the tension in their large but unhappy home. It is spring 1966 and a family of wanderers has come to stay at Emilys unhappy Johannesburg home. ![]()
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