![]() ![]() The Hidden Star is Duiker’s third novel and it was published posthumously. But soon Nolitye finds out that the purplish-blue magic stone is but five stones needed to put right things that started to go wrong the day her father died in a mining accident when she was five years old. Along with her two friend – the somewhat pampered Bheki, and Four Eyes, a reformed member of the Spoilers gang led by Rotten Nellie – Nolitye puts the powers of the stone to good use: for the first time the threesome can stand up to the Spoilers Nolitye can save the life of Rex, the leader of a pack of talking township mutts and dare to look scary MaMtonga with her living brown-and-green snake necklace in the eye. ![]() ![]() When Nolitye finds a magical stone on the dusty streets of Phola, her granny’s words take on a new meaning. Eleven-year-old Nolitye’s granny used to say: if you mess with a woman, you mess with a stone. ![]()
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