In Dire Straits

There’s drama in the suburbs when a coterie of Capetonians is overcome by outrage and intrigue while their city frazzles in the garden-withering heat of the worst drought on record… In a gated housing estate, a grieving Karoo widow provokes an uprising that shatters the Botoxed façades of those around her. Soon fear grows like weeds among the dying lawns, and betrayal thrives behind the illegally watered rosebushes – before real danger emerges beneath the streets of Cape Town itself. Set amid the volatility and hysteria of the worst water crisis the area has ever faced, In Dire Straits is a novel by six women whose horrifying personal tale merges in a truth-is-strangerthan- fiction climax of almost unbelievable proportions.