BOOKS | A Weakness to Die For by Owen Salmon

A leading and popular Cape Town women's rights lawyer, arts patron and doting patriarch, Peter Truman finds his utopian world turned upside down. Usually adept at coping, the pressures mount whilst caring for his beloved wife Amanda in her cancer recovery, and still being the perfect father to their daughter. Extended to the limit, he accedes to his PA's insistence to hire an au pair. The Icelandic physiotherapy student is cheeky, witty and, like Peter, distinctively musical. She is soon embraced into the daily lives of the Truman family. But her arrival has unintended consequences as Peter falls victim to both his strengths and his weaknesses. That is the jist of Owen Salmon's novel, A weakness to die for. He joins us virtually to tell us more.

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