Lauren Beukes’ gritty ‘Shining Girls’ shines a light on femicide
Inspired by personal experiences, SA author Lauren Beukes' genre-bending novel about a time-travelling serial killer has been turned into a TV series
24 April 2022 - 00:00
When I first met bestselling South African author Lauren Beukes at a pavement café in the Johannesburg suburb of Parkhurst, just after the publication of her book The Shining Girls, she had shoulder-length blue hair that seemed to suit the conversation we were having about her foray into writing comics...
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