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Child of Where Two Oceans Meet

by Cynthia Elizabeth Sully; Cover Design or Artwork by Steve Tronson

253 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #08-0516; ISBN 1-4251-7661-5; US$21.00, C$21.00, EUR14.35, £10.84

*…under enigmatic skies of AFRICA'S noonday sun move on a journey towards hope - freedom - laughter - through the madness of an apartheid regime - when the TRIBES will sing - SIMUNYE - we ARE as one …*

About the Book

This is a spellbinding amazing tale (a work of fiction) about a woman's fight for the ideals she was brought up to believe in: FREEDOM, HOPE, STRENGTH and LAUGHTER. She was a woman of great integrity who made mistakes, for she was only human. She grew up in South Africa during the madness of an untenable and brutal apartheid regime which left its black population reeling. … her name was Fleur-Rowin Elizabeth Eugene - the initials of her name spell out the word *F*R*E*E* - would she ever really be free? Walk with her now and smell the woodsmoke on an open fire, hear the roar of lion on a savannah plain, feel the throbbing pulsating rhythm of distant drums on a moonlit night and touch the crashing waves of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans as they surge onto rugged shores…

Experience life during an apartheid era, when a ruling government enacted its brutal laws of apartheid, destroying the lives of so many. So many lives were lost, so many people were unjustly imprisoned for their beliefs and their fight against oppression.

Apartheid was a 'new' word for an 'old' dogma which had been in place unofficially for three hundred years. Segregation in all atrocious perfidy would be the law of the land in South Africa for many decades, but apartheid WOULD come to an end eventually, through the fight for freedom, by its people who refused to have their pride broken, though often, their bodies were battered into a pretence of submission…

… this is also a tale of love - the greatest gift of all - for time is a shadow - so seize the day - "… TEMPUS UMBRA - CARPE DIEM …"

About the Author

CYNTHIA ELIZABETH (COLLINS) SULLY - born and educated in Cape Town, South Africa - grew up with her only sister - Myrle - within the shadow of the Cape Peninsula's magnificently brooding and awe inspiring Table Mountain and its attendant peaks of Devil's Peak and Lion's Head, with Signal Hill at the forefront. These mountains merge into the beautiful Twelve Apostle Peaks. The author's family heritage reaches back generations to - Ireland's : County Cork; England's : Barrow-in-Furnace and Lancashire; and France's : Alsace-Lorraine.

The author has resided in Australia twice and has visited South America (Brazil, Argentine, and Uruguay, twice), with short visits to Great Britain and France. She has also returned to South Africa ten times for visits with her family.

An interior design consultant, her many diversified interests include gourmet cooking - specializing in South Africa's cape-dutch-malay cuisine and she hosts many South African Gourmet Safari Nights, with many of her traditional recipes found in her first published book: "Snowflakes to Sea Urchins - 'twas the night after christmas&hellip" This book is a part biography, well received by the public at large.

Mother of two grown children - son and daughter - and grandmother to four grandchildren whom she spends many enjoyable hours with, the beaches and sea of Vancouver, Canada, are her 'companions' in all weathers, for she is truly, a child of the oceans… Her heart resides in two places for her beloved Africa beckons to her constantly…

The book cover design is by Steve Tronson of Cape Town, South Africa, former photographic editor (now retired), of one of South Africa's popular motoring magazines. He is a multi-talented man. Of note, are his Tronsigns humorous Christmas greeting cards, which are much sought after… Father of two grown sons, he resides with his wife Myrle (the author's sister), in Edgemead, South Africa.