num_pages: 384
description: A sensitive portrayal of the emergence of a young girl into womanhood in a profoundly divided society. Helen Shaw passes the first 17 years or her life in the white community of South Africa. But it takes a passionate love affair to give her the strength to finally defy her parents.
language: English
title: The Lying Days
titlecomplete: The Lying Days
genres: Fiction, South Africa, Novels, Historical Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 222
publisher: Penguin Books