In Dire Straits - The Write Girls

In a gated housing estate, a grieving Karoo widow provokes anuprising that shatters the Botoxed facades of those around her.Soon fear grows like weeds among the dying lawns, and betrayalthrives behind the illegally watered rosebushes - beforereal danger emerges beneath the streets of Cape Town itself.Set amid the volatility and hysteria of the worst water crisisthe area has ever faced, In Dire Straits is a novel by six womenwhose horrifying personal tale merges in a truth-is-strangerthan-fiction climax of almost unbelievable proportions.