Kathryn K. reviewed on 9/2/2009 + 131 more book reviews

A haunting story set in the 1960s in remote South Africa about young girls and their swimming coach. A foreign student disappears one day into the Transvaal. Forty years later, her schoolmates gather at the invitation of the old headmistress to save the school from a developer's bulldozer. The women reminisce about what happened, and the story builds to a shocking climax. Reminded me of the movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock."

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