A KIND OF COUSIN by Suenel Bruwer Holloway

Cover design and book layout by Stella Stofberg

This very first anthology of short stories by Suenel Bruwer Holloway is a fresh breeze, blowing irreverently through old taboos, sweeping away the cobwebs of political correctness. With tongue-in-cheek humour Suenel captures the spirit of the people of our wonderful, sad and broken country; also the essence of humankind everywhere.

There is the sadness of an old lady in “The Statistic”, who is cunningly stashing away morphine and sleeping tablets for an “assisted departure”, fooling the nursing staff of the retirement centre; there is the infallible logic of a child in the title story, “A Kind of Cousin” and a startling different view of prostitution in “The Healer”.  Enjoy “The Right Therapist” where the author pokes fun at “shrinks” and psychoanalysts.

“Horseflesh” is an ode to the donkey: Old Langoor who should have been called Lionheart, refusing to be broken by abuse and starvation.

Fasten your seatbelt; be ready to be carried away by topics usually swaddled in cotton wool: farm murders, religious obsession, the Afrikaner’s ties to the land, old age and dying.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Suenel Bruwer Holloway lives in the small village, McGregor, near Robertson in the Western Cape. She has published several dramas, poems and individual short stories, and some of her children’s verse have been put to music. Some of her plays have been turned into musicals. She is also involved in the poetry festival which is hosted at McGregor each year.

A Kind of Cousin is her first single author short story anthology.

Anthology of Short Stories

Paperback / / 148mm x 210mm / 194 pages

For those who enjoy:

Readers that don’t buy into received truth

Travelers that dip in and out of a book

Fiction fans with limited time wanting substance

Wide ranging topics - satirical, sinister and funny

A KIND OF COUSIN by Suenel Bruwer Holloway is available in (or can be ordered at) all major bookstores just quote the title, author and the following ISBN-number:

ISBN: 978-1-928283-36-2