Adams Books / Musgrave and Solo Collective
host the launch of the novel Three Women out of Love by Gertrud Strauss on October 30.
No newcomer to the book launches of Adams,
Gertrud Strauss’s previous launch at Musgrave was with a short novel A Putzig Sense of Proportion (now sold
out) and before that Chapters of Childhood
(available) and The Blood Spot and Other
Stories (limited copies available) were launched at different venues.
The new novel which in typewritten text was
over 600 pages (this was more than 30 years ago) is now a handy readable 448
pages. There are three main characters, women from the early 60’s, or some
brief months in their lives, though memories and reminiscences of their
friendship at school (in Natal) add to the time of the plot. Hanna is now
(1963) in London, Marga after marriage in Germany and Friedel has a farmer
husband in the midlands where she grew up.
Gertrud Strauss was born in
Pietermaritzburg in 1936, grew up in the Natal Midlands, did her MA on the
German writer Wolfgang Borchert, taught in the English Department at UNISA, and
has been married to Peter Strauss since 1963 – graduating to the status of
grandmother with six grandchildren. She began writing in 1974, when the
youngest of three children went to nursery school. Since 1992 she has also been
involved in publishing.
For more information on the launch, contact
Beverley on 086 134 1341 at Adams in Musgrave Centre or email: musgrave@adamsbooks.co.za
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