Poet, Eppel to launch ninth novel

BULAWAYO poet, critic and writer John Eppel will launch his ninth novel The Boy Who Loved Camping end of month at the Orange Elephant in Bulawayo.

Eppel told NewsDay Life & Style yesterday that the novel, a dedication to his late mother and other women, is set in the 1950s and 1970s in Rhodesia at a time love between the races was forbidden.

“The novel is a semi-autobiography dedicated to my late mother so I guess she, and women in general were my inspiration.

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