Skin Deep

Pan Horizons covers say modern and adult. What I've read of the imprint are private thinking books for sharing later rather than public reading. This is a hurtful and joyful story of white woman and pass-white man in South Africa, both young, with families and with futures to choose. The book deals more with loyalties than ideologies which, I think, may open it to more readers - and both Rhonda and Dave are children (of their parents and their society) which may give teachers a stance. I take Skin Deep more seriously now than when I (sceptical) first read it. For older students, as a lead into Coetzee and Gordimer and other white South African writers and to their companion writers who are black and must be searched for.