Halleys Comet is a CBC Spring 2024 Showcase Selection and a 2024 IBBY Honour List Selection. It is the coming-of-age story of Pete de Lange, a white 16-year-old schoolboy in small-town South Africa in 1986, who discovers the consequences of knowing the truth and having the courage to speak it. The story follows the trio's journey as they run for their lives from Rudie and the anti-Apartheid revolutionaries, which will change the course of their lives forever.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 17 March 2022
Publisher: Catalyst Books

A 2024 IBBY Honour List Selection

A CBC Spring 2024 Showcase Selection

In the final years of South Africa's Apartheid era, an unlikely trio—a sheltered white rugby player, a black farmworker's son, and an Indian shopkeeper's daughter—discover the consequences of knowing the truth and having the courage to speak it. Halleys Comet is the coming-of-age story of Pete de Lange, a white 16-year-old schoolboy, set in small-town South Africa in 1986. Pete lives a relatively sheltered life, primarily concerned with girls and rugby—until one January night changes everything. Thrust together with two complete strangers—Petrus, a black farmworker's son, and Sarita, an Indian shopkeeper's daughter—the trio find themselves running for their lives from the vicious Rudie, whose actions will ripple far beyond that fateful night. This era-defying friendship—sparked by a shared secret—challenges everything Pete thought he knew and believed. And when anti-Apartheid revolutionaries set their sights on the town, it will change the course of the three young people's lives forever. Halleys Comet is a story of friendship, love, change, taking chances, hope, a comet, and some pretty cool 80s music.

Dimension: 203 x 133 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781946395559