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The World Beneath

A Novel

by Janice Warman

Narrator Debi Hawkins

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Length 4 hours 13 minutes

Language English

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South Africa, 1976: Joshua lives with his mother in the maid's room located in the backyard of their wealthy white employers' house in a city by the sea. While he initially doesn't quite understand the anti-apartheid struggle going on around him, his rescue of a stranger and the riots that begin to sweep the country put him face-to-face with it. As he discovers the despair weighing down the world beneath him, he must make heartbreaking decisions that will change his life forever. In this genuine, quietly unflinching, and beautifully nuanced novel, a veteran journalist captures a child's-eye view of the struggle that shaped a nation and riveted the world.

Historical Fiction YA Fiction

Janice Warman is a journalist and editor whose career spans writing, editing, and broadcasting at a senior level for the BBC, The Observer, The Guardian, The Spectator, and Daily Mail. In addition to her journalism, she has also published two nonfiction books, including an account of three students who risked their lives to help abolish apartheid (The Class of ’79). Born in South Africa, she currently lives in England.

Debi Hawkins grew up and spent most of her life in Zimbabwe and now lives in Cape Town with her husband and three children. Having taught drama and directed children's theatre for many years, she is now acting, singing, and narrating full time. She was recently seen at The Rosebank Theatre in the very popular Murdering Agatha Christie, and her husband, Roger, wrote a semi-biographical play for her called Mpinga Mornings, for which she received rave reviews all over southern Africa.