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South Africa: Helena Olwage’s Story and a Book Review + Podcast

da-AL
6 min readMay 26, 2023

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Helena Olwage loves writing about…!

Click H-E-R-E for the Spotify for Podcasters Happiness Between Tails page, where you’ll find links to subscribe, hear, and share it via most any platform, from Spotify and Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts and Breaker, to Pocket Casts and RadioPublic and Castbox and Stitcher, plus many more and an RSS feed. The full list of 50+ places is H-E-R-E.

Books, neighbors, authors from South Africa (or anywhere else) — we all need to look closer before we judge (and that includes the novels I’m seeking representation for.)

South Africa is the backdrop for The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso, a thoughtful novel about trying to get along with difficult neighbors that I just finished reading in good ole fashioned hard copy. Here’s my review for Goodreads and Amazon:

“Goddesses help you if you’re two old grumpy neighbor ladies in South Africa, one black and one

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Novelist/Blogger/Podcaster. More great stuff at HappinessBetweenTails.com

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