Barbara Trapido

Barbara Trapido was born in South Africa and is the author of five novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack, Temples of Delight and, most recently, The Travelling Hornplayer (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award). She lives in Oxford.

Frankie & Stankie by Barabara Trapido
Bloomsbury

Dinah and her sister Lisa, two little girls from a dissenting liberal family, are growing up in 1950's South Africa, where racial laws are tightening.  As the apparatus of repression rolls on, Dinah finds her own way, escaping into rewarding friendships. As we follow Dinah's journey through childhood and adolescence, we enter into one of the darker passages of 20th century history.