The Self-Employed Housewife

<p>This story is about an immigrant from Holland to South Africa in the 1970s and the relationship between the young wife and mother and her husband who is a seaman. Every chapter is engaging chatty dialogue between her her two toddlers and the people she interacts with while starting her own leather craft business from home.<br><br>From being a desperately unhappy housewife who finds her true calling after healing her psychic wounds this spiritual odyssey is as intensely pleasurable as it is enlightening.<br><br>The book carries an uplifting message for any immigrant who wants to survive as a new arrival in a country with no support base and only a minimal understanding of English.</p>