In Dire Straits. Este artículo no está disponible.In Dire Straits

In a gated housing estate, a grieving Karoo widow provokes anuprising that shatters the Botoxed facades of those around her.Soon fear grows like weeds among the dying lawns, and betrayalthrives behind the illegally watered rosebushes – beforereal danger emerges beneath the streets of Cape Town itself.Set amid the volatility and hysteria of the worst water crisisthe area has ever faced, In Dire Straits is a novel by six womenwhose horrifying personal tale merges in a truth-is-strangerthan-fiction climax of almost unbelievable proportions.

The Write Girls are six Cape Town-based authors from diversebackgrounds and cultures, and different countries and agegroups, who have met as a creative-writing group for morethan a decade. In Dire Straits is their fourth book, followingthe short-story collections Women Like Us and Seven Women,and the novel The Man With The Blue Eyes.Emerging out of the Cape Town water crisis, In Dire Straitseerily mirrors their own very real experiences in the city,when they were caught up in a near-death situation duringa flash flood in the tunnels beneath the Castle of Good Hopein June 2017. In the process they discovered that truth can,indeed, often feel more unreal than fiction.