Danika believes she is able to cope with anything. Now, as she keeps a lonely vigil at her mother's hospital bed, helplessly watching her life slipping away, Danika is once again confronted by the dark secrets of her childhood in Cape Town in the eighties.
A State of Emergency had been declared young soldiers carrying guns roamed the streets of Cape Town. No-one bothered to explain anything to bewildered, seven-year-old Danika, and for once her older sister, Lily, had no answers. Besides, their family had an emergency of their own ...
All We Have Left Unsaid is a poignant, deceivingly simple debut novel by Maxine Case.