The shouting in the dark
"Ella is locked in a battle for creative survival with her domineering father, and apartheid South Africa, the troubled country in which he passionately believes. Whilst seeking political refuge in Europe Ella makes an unexpected discovery that forces her to confront both her father's war ghosts and the shape of her own future. In the country of his birth, her father, Ella finds, never officially recognized her existence. Boehmer has written a raw, intense and involving story." (publisher).
