About What Poisonous Things
Fasten your seat belt for this fast-paced time travel thriller!
When Geo Perold wakes up in hospital after having swallowed a handful of rat poison in a failed suicide attempt, he is visited by a man who offers him three wishes – the chance to alter his reality. Believing the man must have escaped from the psych ward, Geo decides to play along, hoping to get rid of him. But then he wakes up back in time to a life slightly different from the one he had tried to escape, and finds that his three biggest problems have miraculously disappeared.
It takes Geo a while to discover that a few other things have changed as well. The modern 2041 city that he had left behind is now dark and broody, and infested with rats… As Geo starts following a trail of breadcrumbs it leads him to a very disturbing realization: He has been tricked! Because of him, the city is now in danger, and he might be the only one who can save it, because he is the only one who remembers things as they were before. But then, can he trust his own memories?
(Trigger warning: Themes of suicide)
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Author Bio:
As the daughter of award-winning South African poet and art academic, Leon Strydom, Anna Emm grew up surrounded by literature and theatre. She wrote her first book at the age of four, by dictating it to her kindergarten teacher. Soon after this, she taught herself to write, and from then on there was no stopping her.
While in primary school Anna wrote a series of action-packed stories to entertain her classmates. These stories were so popular that her eager readers often offered to do her homework for her so she could finish the latest chapters. As a teenager, when the effects of dysfunctional family life began to take its toll, Anna withdrew into her own imaginary world. She remembers bunking classes and hiding out in the school's bathroom so she could write.
After school Anna studied at the Boland College of Education and, at the age of 21, got her first teaching job in Cape Town. She taught Grade 2 classes for four years, but describes herself as a terrible teacher, because she'd spent most days secretly reading stories to the students instead of teaching them anything. But it was here that she could really see the value of stories because, on an almost exclusive diet of stories, not only did the children in her class excell in their academic work, but their self-confidence, vocabulary and creativity far surpassed that of their peers. They appeared happier and more relaxed, and they could show a level of empathy towards others that was far beyond their years. This was enough evidence to finally convince Anna to bid teaching goodbye and focus on her writing.
In 2006 she founded her own production company through which she would go on to write and produce more than 3000 original children’s stories, most of which were recorded and distributed in audio format. Many local celebrities lend their voices to Anna's children's stories over the years. In 2015, her company won the Afrigrowth Award for Small Business of the Year. By the time Anna closed the business in 2020, her children’s stories had become a household name in South Africa.
Besides proving herself an industrious entrepreneur, Anna is also a prolific cross-genre writer. Up to date she has self-published 5 children's books, 17 young adult books, 2 collections of short stories, 21 romance novels, 4 suspense novels, and 38 novellas. She also wrote and produced 4 plays and 12 children's theatre plays.
As a child her greatest fear was that she would stop writing. So she didn’t.