Van ongenooi na ingenooi is werklikheidsfiksie gebaseer op die ware verhaal van trauma en verlies en uiteindelike aanvaarding in die lewe van ’n jong vrou en haar gesin. Dit is ook die verhaal van ware vriendskap. Ná ’n besoek aan ’n chirurg word ulseratiewe kolitis by Tanja gediagnoseer en sy moet hoor dat dit reeds haar rektum en kolon aangetas het. Die dokter hanteer egter nie die saak as spoedeisend nie, verseker haar dat sy maar kan gaan vakansie hou. Die uiteinde is katastrofies. Tanja se kolon perforeer en sy sterf byna aan inwendige bloeding. Tientalle besoeke aan die hospitaal volg en sy moet vir die res van haar lewe met ’n stomasak saamleef. Ná haar ontslag besef en ondervind sy watter letsels die ongenooide siekte, trauma en aanhegsel aan haar liggaam en emosies laat. Van ongenooi na ingenooi is ’n boek vir:

• Vroue op die eensame reis wat in Noodgevalle of ’n onkologiekliniek begin het, waarna jy met jouself, God en jou medemens moet gaan saamleef
• Dié wat al deur groot trauma moes gaan, asook hul gesin en veral vir hul lewensmaat.
• Lesers wat hulle in ’n “nuwe normaal”bevind – in ’n liggaam wat waarskynlik nooit weer soos vroeër sal lyk of wees nie
• Die lewensmaats van vroue soos Tanja, asook die familie en vriende van ernstig siek mense

'Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in all gothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading.' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice in Trump's America. For readers of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy. In 2017, Christa Parravani had recently moved her family from California to West Virginia. Surviving on a teacher's salary, she was already raising two young children with her husband, screenwriter Anthony Swofford. Another pregnancy, a year after giving birth to her second child, came as a shock. Christa had a history of ectopic pregnancies and was worried that she wouldn't be able to find adequate medical care. She immediately requested a termination - but her doctor refused to help. The only doctor who would perform an abortion made it clear that this would be illicit, not condoned by her colleagues or their community. In exploring her own choice, or rather in discovering her lack of it, Christa reveals the desperate state of female healthcare in contemporary America. 'A brutally honest, rollercoaster of a journey that left me championing her bravery.' Esther Freud 'I will never forget this book. Read it. This is all I can say.' Rachel Louise Snyder 'Stunningly good' The Bookseller 'Everyone should read this book' Sarah Mansugo

Historians refer to the Spanish Civil War as one of the bloodiest wars of the twentieth century. In 1937, at Mexico s request and offer, nearly 500 children from Spain remembered as Los Niños de Morelia were relocated via ship to Mexico to escape the war s violence. These children traveled across the sea without their families and were expected to return at the war s end. No one could have foreseen another world war was on the way or that that Franco s regime would prevent the children from coming home. These enduring conflicts trapped the children in a country far from their homeland, and many never made it back. Remember Me is Mario Escobar s novelization of these events, as told by a fictional survivor one of the children of Morelia who looks back upon his life after making the long and devastating journey across the Atlantic. This story explores the endurance of the human spirit as well as the quandary of a parent s impossible decision, asking: At what cost do you protect your child in the face of uncertainty?