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2006: Everyone’s adjusting to apartheid’s end and one boy fears getting a new stepdad.

2006: Everyone’s adjusting to apartheid’s end and one Britney-loving boy fears getting a new stepdad. Read by Tracy Ann Oberman.

It's 2006, and both white and black South Africans are adjusting to the end of Apartheid. 

And 12-year old, Britney-loving Willem fears he's about to get a new stepdad.

Damian Barr's blistering debut novel, spanning 100 years of South Africa's dark past and present.

Read by Tracy Ann Oberman.

Abridged in ten parts by Richard Hamilton

Producer: Justine Willett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2019.

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Damian Barr's searing novel spanning 100 years of South Africa's dark past and present.

Tracy Ann Oberman reads Damian Barr's searing debut novel, spanning 100 years of South Africa's troubled past and present.

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