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Mel Mongie
MEL MONGIE was a born in Chester, England. She grew up in the 1950s in the rural, Eastern Cape, making up bedtime stories for her young brothers in which Father Christmas slipped down the chimney o...view moreMEL MONGIE was a born in Chester, England. She grew up in the 1950s in the rural, Eastern Cape, making up bedtime stories for her young brothers in which Father Christmas slipped down the chimney of a mud hut. At boarding school friends waited for chapters about a Little Women type heroine. But it was only when her sons had left home that she began writing again. Having had only brothers and sons, choosing a man as her main character made sense. She is a retired high school teacher and lives in Cape Town. This is her first novel. A second is under way.view less