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/ 9 May 2003

Life in the wild city

Jo-Anne Richards published her first novel, <em>The Innocence of Roast Chicken</em>, in 1996. It deals with growing up under apartheid. Her second, <em>Touching the Lighthouse</em> (1998), is about the radical politics of the 1980s. Her new novel, <em>Sad at the Edges</em> (Stephan Phillips), is about a South African woman’s return to vibrant Johannesburg after a sojourn in London. Richards lives in Johannesburg, has worked as a journalist and teaches in the postgraduate journalism programme at Wits University.