When Anthony Akerman left apartheid SA in the seventies, there was no love lost between the writer and the country whose citizenship he would soon renounce. Over a decade later, a trip that took him to neighbouring Zimbabwe and Botswana sparked a homesickness that would leave him feeling foreve.
In the year following Lionel Abrahams’ death, his wife Jane Fox wrote him a series of letters. ‘Letters to Lionel’ is a piercingly honest book about the ‘unbiddable nature of a love’ that continues after death.