One Magic Moment

by Jenny Robson

Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature: gold (1996)
M.E.R. Prize for Youth Literature (1997)

A wonderful mystery thriller filled with tantalising and unexpected twists and turns by a prize-winning author of youth stories. The story is about unravelling the secret of Sheralee Willis - there was something very strange about this girl. This dramatic and exciting story with its sporting theme will even get the boys reading!

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Jennifer Marion Robson (née Murray) is the first author to ever win four consecutive prizes in the Sanlam Youth Novel Competition for the novels Don’t Panic, Mechanic (1994), One Magic Moment (1996), The Denials of Kow-Ten (1998) and Because Pula Means Rain (2000).

Jenny was born and raised in Cape Town. She studied primary school teaching at the Teaching College in Mowbray and went on to study at the University of South Africa (Unisa) where she obtained her B.A. degree in Philosophy.

After two years of teaching in Simons Town, she moved to the diamond-mining town of Orapa in Botswana. She taught music there at Livingstone House for over thirty years. Jenny now lives in Maun in Botswana where she still teaches music. She is widowed and has two adult sons who live in London, UK.

Jenny loves writing for young people as she admires their spontaneity and lack of hypocrisy. Her favourite theme in her books is the utter uniqueness of the individual. She hates any form of stereotyping and sees every individual as a “never to be repeated entity.”