TORN TROUSERS

Although not strictly part of Erin and Seth's world, I have taken the liberty of including yet another book I am currently working on: TORN TROUSERS. (I excuse myself by saying that TORN TROUSERS provided the inspiration for the setting for much of what takes place in the SOUL WARS SAGA.)

TORN TROUSERS recounts a great escape. From what?  The toils of every day life: paying the bond, keeping the boss happy, making sure the Jones's are jealous. All the things that keep young twenty-somethings strung out and exhausted. 

Some years ago my husband Andrew and I closed our businesses, sold everything we owned and took ourselves, our Siamese cat, a camera and a box of tools to an island accessible only by boat or by air in the Okavango Delta. The Okavango is a World Heritage Site tucked away in northern Botswana, a country in southern Africa. 

And what were we doing there, you may ask: We managed a luxury lodge named Delta Camp. 

Here we met elephants who almost crushed our home, witchdoctors who tried to put a hex on us, hyenas that raided our kitchen, fires that threatened to destroy our reed structures, snakes that terrorised our guests, and the best and worst tourists Europe, the UK and America could offer us. But although thrilling, none of these encounters came close to the excitement and laughter that followed where the man Matanta led. The only survivor of thirteen children, at birth his mother named him Matanta - meaning Torn Trousers - because no one keeps torn trousers. He defied her by living. And did he live! His story is entwined with ours in the book named for him: TORN TROUSERS.

TORN TROUSERS is due for release in mid 2012.


The following pics will give you some idea of what to expect from TORN TROUSERS...

Matanta and Gwynneth on the runway at Delta Camp. Matanta was a man who smiled through all of life's challenges.

Travel in the Delta is by mokoro (the dug out canoe)

Elephant often caused traffic jams in the river, stopping our guests and their guides from poling home.

A typical Delta Sunset. You never get tired of them.

After weeks of drought the fires came. Terrifying walls of flame encircled the camp for days.

The camp seen from the river. All the buildings were constructed from the reeds growing along the river bank.

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