(Pieter Scholtz) Launched this week at the St Clements Mondays at Seven programme was Beyond The Tide, new novel about the fishermen of Arniston, and about a young girl named Miranda who enters a strange new world.
This is a story about the power of belief; belief in one’s self and belief in others. It is also a story about unusual or magical worlds and the creatures who inhabit them.
For Miranda, the story is a journey of discovery. She has to come to terms with the loss of her father. Her belief and her compassion lead her to free a strange creature from the nets of the fishermen who want to destroy it. Her choice leads her into strange and terrifying adventures beneath the sea, where she meets an odd assortment of creatures; some amusing, like Peter Polyp, and some frightening, like the Octopus and the Sharks.
However, the story is also set in the real world, in a little fishing village named Arniston which is best known for the 200-year old restored fishing village of Kassiesbaai. The cottages at Kassiesbaai are still inhabited by present day fishermen.
“The reader is asked to consider the questions: where does the world we carry within us, end?” says Pieter Scholtz, “And where does the world that lies without, begin?”
Beyond The Tide is available at Adams Bookstores.
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