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Niemand het gedink ek sal hoor nie, maar ek het! Moenie dink omdat jy maar net tien minute gelede gebore is, omdat jy rooi en opgeskroef en lelik is, dat jy ook dom is, of nie kan hoor wat gepraat word nie. Jy kan. “Hierdie hopie sprinkaanbene . . . Is dit ’n kind? Is dit myne?” Ek het my pa gehoor, en dit het die kwaad in my losgemaak, toe al. En toe hoor ek ook die ander ding, dit wat suster Van Schalkwyk van my gese het. Dit wat sy gese het, het ek ook met my saamgevat. En dit het die wen in my losgemaak, toe al. Want ek, die meisiekind wat my pa nie wou he nie, moes baklei teen die vloek van die Gideon de la Reys . . .

A gripping thriller about a teenage boy sucked into the dark world of a cult.Eighteen-year-old Joe is bored. Stuck at home after a bout of glandular fever, all his friends have left Manchester and gone to university, leaving Joe with nothing but his rather annoying family for company. When he meets Kate and Nick on the train, something about them appeals to him. So he goes to see them at their commune, a farm in rural Todmorden.Gradually, Joe’s life starts to make sense. With the White Ones he is wanted, and his life has a purpose. When he meets Bea at the farm, he really feels that his life is complete, and he decides to leave his family and live with the White Ones forever.But there is something sinister about Fletcher, the Todmorden White Ones leader. Fletcher seems obsessed with Joe – convinced that he is a Perfect, and someone to be venerated. A dramatic trip to the wildest reaches of Orkney will show Joe his destiny – and reveal some shocking truths.