Love Tastes Like Strawberries

By Rosamund Haden

“Stella stares at the painting on the therapist’s wall. A road winds along a mountainside above an azure sea. The slopes of the mountain are covered in olive trees. Small white boats bob on the shimmering water at the foot of cliffs. Stella is lost in the painting. She can smell the herbs in the bush, wild thyme and something sweeter. She is running down a steep path to a cove below. On holiday in Greece. Thirteen. Awkward, in between everything . . .” Ivor Woodall is dead. And, somehow, it is all Stella’s fault. Because in Stella’s life the past is still very much alive. Her coming-of-age holiday in Greece. The young art student who charmed his way into her mother’s bed. What she saw that morning on the beach . . . It all adds up to Ivor’s death. And Timothy being lost. And Franҫoise and Luke. Luke being more lost than anyone . . . From Rwanda to Cape Town to the Greek islands, "Love Tastes Like Strawberries" is a beautiful, sensual piece of writing that shows us how hard it is to truly know love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kwela
• Release date: Jun 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9780795706646

Rosamund Haden

Rosamund Haden is one of South Africa’s most talented and prolific authors. Perhaps best known for her debut novel "The Tin Church" – which was published to international acclaim – Ros has spent the last decade producing short stories, children’s books, teen novels and scripts for television. Some of her more recent projects include: "My Name is Honoré" – a collaboration with Honoré Muneza, a Rwandan refugee – published by Pearson. "Time Twisters" – a tween novel written under the pseudonym Sam Roth (with Dorothy Dyer) – published by Penguin South Africa. "Broken Promises" and "Sugar Daddy" – two YA novels written for the popular Harmony High series – published by Cover2Cover Books. Aside from her writing, Ros is co-founder and publisher at Cover2Cover Books and the content developer for the FunDza Literacy Trust. In 2013 FunDza was named as one of the top ten most innovative companies in education in the world and has attracted support both locally and from abroad for its commitment to improving literacy levels with programmes that get South African teens and young adults reading and writing. Ros lives in Cape Town with her son, Mo.