E Eights

by Jayne Bauling

"Tell," she whispers and draws the blue fabric close around her childish body.
Chabi finds herself in conflict with her father when a new immigrant family move into E Eights. But she and her friends are determined to help Hawa and her parents. What happens next leaves its mark on them all.

80 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2009

About the author

Jayne was born in England but grew up in South Africa. After many years in Johannesburg and 17 women's fiction novels published in the UK, a move to White River, Mbombela in Mpumalanga, coincided with an exploration of new writing directions - youth fiction, short stories and poetry. Her YA novel E Eights won the 2009 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, Stepping Solo was awarded the 2011 Maskew Miller Longman literature award for novels in English, and Dreaming of Light won the 2012 Gold Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature and was chosen for the 2014 IBBY Honour List. Her youth short story Dineo 658 MP won the 2009 MML silver medal, while This Ubuntu Thing was shortlisted for the inaugural Golden Baobab award and The Saturday Dress was shortlisted for the same award in 2014. In 2011 she also won the inaugural African Writing flash fiction prize for Settling. She has twice been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Another youth novel Our Side of the Wall was shortlisted for the Sanlam Prize. Her adult short stories have appeared in The Bed Book of Short Stories (Modjaji Books), The Edge of Things (Dye Hard Press), African Pens 2011 (Jacana), Feast, Famine & Potluck (Short Story Day Africa), the e-anthology Behind the Shadows, and (the stories An Inappropriate Woman and Witch and Bitch)in the People Opposing Women Abuse Breaking the Silence annual anthologies (Jacana). Rage and Misfortune, her retelling of the OT Samson story was published online by Ludic Press. Poetry: Symbiosis won SAFM's Express Yourself prize, Fist was placed 3rd in the 2008 POWA Women's Writing Project and published in Murmurs of the Girl in Me, while Unschooled was published in POWA's 2010 anthology Stories of the Othere(ed) Woman and The Ladies Take Tea in POWA's 2012 anthology Sisterhood. More poetry in ouroboros review, Markings, poetandgeek, Ons Klyntji, Litnet and the Lowvelder.
Her latest novel is Soccer Secrets (Cover2Cover Books).
Visit her Facebook page Jayne Bauling Writer or follow her on Twitter @JayneBauling

Reviews

[Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

E Eights is the nickname for a block of flats, Elizabeth Heights, given by the group of teenagers living there. The main character, Chabi, is adjusting to life in a new city, a situation made more complicated as her unemployed father grows increasingly bitter and xenophobic. When a Somali family moves into the block, Chabi and her friends vow to protect them.

Jayne Bauling is an award-winning author of young adult fiction, and this book does not disappoint. The harsh realities of xenophobia in South Africa are addressed in an engaging style, and the interactions of the young protagonists with each other and the members of their increasingly cosmopolitan community add hope and humour to the novel.

[Akonaho Khuthe · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is nice

[Ruufas Money · Rating 3 out of 5]

Its not very difficult to start a Novel.
And all you have to do is Focus