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    "description": "CIA is my sister and I am the leader. The two of us are sitting on the flagstone steps outside the kitchen eating peanut butter and jam sandwiches. Cia peels hers apart, like she always does, and slowly licks out the filling, while I squash the layers of bread together between my palms until mine oozes peanut butter and jam goo, and then I gulp it down.\nNyree and Cia O\u2019Callohan live on a remote farm in the east of what was Rhodesia in the late 1970s. Beneath the dripping vines of the Vumba rainforest, and under the tutelage of their heretical grandfather, theirs is a seductive childhood laced with African paganism, mangled Catholicism and the lore of the Brothers Grimm. Their world extends as far as the big fence, erected to keep out the \u2018Terrs\u2019 whom their father is off fighting. The two girls know little beyond that until the arrival from the outside world of \u2018the bastard\u2019, their orphaned cousin Ronin, who is to poison their idyll for ever.\n\nSet against the backdrop of civil war and the death throes of a colony, Lauren Liebenberg\u2019s dark and delightful novel about growing up in Africa is a stunning debut.",
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