Michael Rogers 
Coconut Shells [EPUB ebook] 

I am a coconut because my body is black but my spirit inside it is white. The skin is just a shell, fragile and frail; when you cut into it there is a sense of shock when the white milk is revealed. If you split my coconut shell in half and remove it you will see a completely new body on the inside; I think she looks a bit like Marilyn Monroe, only with better legs and juicier hips.

Lerato Dlamini is the next Queen of South Africa on her way to her coronation. During her journey she explores a beautifully diverse land being torn apart by division and hatred as Apartheid takes hold. But out of the hopelessness a steady light is shining: Nelson Mandela refuses to give up the fight for freedom even when he is jailed as a terrorist.

After a chance encounter with Mandela as a child, Lerato is deluded into thinking that he is in love with her. She thinks he is commanding her to rescue him from jail and promising her that upon his coronation as King they will be married. The years roll on and the likelihood of her mission succeeding appears to wane, but like Mandela she never gives up hope. Will she reach Cape Town before its too late?

Sobre o autor

Michael Rogers studied English Literature and Journalism at Roehampton University in south west London. He was a volunteer for 9 months at TLC Children’s Home in Johannesburg, South Africa, caring for abandoned newborn babies affected by crime, illness and poverty. He has travelled extensively around Southern Africa and has also worked for the secretariat of the British HIV Association in London.

This is his second novel; his first was entitled Burnt Fingers. He lives in Bournemouth, on the south coast of England.