UNFORGETTABLE READS
THE MAN WHO LOVED CROCODILE TAMERS
By FINUALA DOWLING Kwela
This novel is the author’s fictionalised account of her father’s backstory interspersed with snippets from the storyteller’s own life. All Gina knows about her dad, Paddy, was that he was engaged to Koringa, a crocodile tamer, and that he is buried in an unknown grave.
Gina, the fictional, aspiring novelist, works at a Cape Town call centre by day. In her
