The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club

Life… it’s all about choices

From the author of The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam comes a poignant, compelling story about the endurance of friendship, and about coming of age in South Africa at a time that was at once charmed and cruel.

For all of us there comes a fall, a loss of innocence, after which we are never again the same. For twelve year-old Tommy and Chris, growing up on the compounds of the mines of Johannesburg, that moment came in 1958.

Goaded by the pulse of Elvis, Little Richard and the kwela kwela rhythms of the black ghettos, these young jive cats of the West Rand Cons Mine look to prove their grit on the slumyard dance floors and in the sweat-soaked ring of the boxing club, run by the enigmatic and wise Jock McGinty.

But Tommy has a little sister, Cecilia – sweet, whimsical and vulnerable. Unwittingly, she will make the two friends face a choice between courage and cowardice, between loyalty and betrayal.

ISBN-13: 9781844086719
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