Sean, Eddie, and Me

Set in a small South African mining town, against an Eighties backdrop of political and border conflict, Nick Theron fifteen, going on sixteen, is enjoying the freedom of a typical white childhood. Until new boy Michael Dempsey arrives in town. Worldly, charming … and sociopathic … Michael sets his sights on the naive Nick and his friends, luring them into a game of emotional cat and mouse.

Three decades later Nick returns to the town of his childhood, carrying with him a sense of heavy foreboding, finally ready to face the past.

A keenly-observed and entertaining novel about the relationships among a group of small-town youths from a dark era in South Africa’s past, Sean, Eddie and Me is both a historical rendering - albeit with a satirical touch - as it is a psychological and social study. As such, a must-read for any South African who has lived through this period.