The Self-Employed Housewife

This story is about an immigrant from Holland to South Africa in the 1970s and the relationship between the young wife and mother and her husband, who is a seaman. Every chapter is engaging, chatty dialogue between her, her two toddlers, and the people she interacts with while starting her own leather craft business from home.

From being a desperately unhappy housewife who finds her true calling after healing her psychic wounds, this spiritual odyssey is as intensely pleasurable as it is enlightening.

The book carries an uplifting message for any immigrant who wants to survive as a new arrival in a country with no support base and only a minimal understanding of English.