BOY NEXT DOOR, THE- Hodder

Two days after I turned fourteen the son of our neighbour set his stepmother alight.Or so Lindiwe Bishop believes, through eighteen months later the charges against Ian Mc Kenzie are dropped and he returns home, full of charm and swagger.Intrigues, Lindiwe strikes up a covert frienship with the mysterious white boy next door. As a bond grows between them, they cannot foresee how severely it will be tested in the years ahead-by secrets and by a world that wants nothing more than to divide them.Vividly evoking Zimbabwe's slide after independence into chaos, The Body Next Door tells and engrossing tale about what it means to witness, change, love and remain whole when all around you is falling apart.