Cette auteure explore les intersections culturelles et les identités à travers une vie riche en expériences diverses. Sa prose aborde souvent des thèmes de l'altérité, de l'adaptation et de la recherche d'appartenance dans divers environnements. La langue et la communication sont au cœur de sa compréhension des liens humains et des structures sociales. Son œuvre présente une perspective à multiples facettes, façonnée par sa vie au Nigeria, en Australie, en Angleterre, en Argentine et au Kenya.
What is the truth? And how do you recognise it when you hear it?Jenny and Pippa are twins. Like many twins they often know what the other is thinking. They complete each other.When Pippa disappears Jenny is left to face the world alone, as she tries to find out what happened to her ‘other half’.But the truth, for Jenny, can be a slippery thing.
When Chala loses her beloved stepfather, it opens the floodgates to a lifetime of secrets. Since childhood, Chala has battled with the guilt she feels for a tragedy that changed the entire course of her life. Now, she is forced to re-evaluate everything she believed about those she loved. On a soul-searching trip to Kenya, Chala learns that some things are harder to bear than the burden she carries. In order to be free, she must return to the past, to the yellow room, and risk finding that the worst things she believes about herself are true. A compelling and emotional drama exploring the power of secrets. *Previously published as Yellow Room* Praise for Shelan Rodger ‘Carefully plotted... unexpected plot twists and revelations are expertly time and delivered.’ The Lady ‘Compelling, evocative, sharply observed and exquisitely written.’ Amanda Jennings, author of The Cliff House