Marita does it again

Afrikaans author Marita van der Vyver lives in Provence, France, with her son Daniel (13), husband Alain and their daughter Mia (5) and Alain's two sons. The author of Griet Skryf 'n Sprokie (translated into English as Entertaining Angels) has a new book out called Travelling Light (first published in Afrikaans as Griet Kom Weer). In Travelling Light, Griet meets an Italian puppeteer, Luca, during a sabbatical in the US and now, back in South Africa, is trying to conduct a long-distance relationship via e-mails and the phone. Marita first went to France to live in a French village for a year but while there she met Alain, a teacher and newly divorced Frenchman. At the end of the year she and Daniel returned to South Africa and carried on the relationship with Alain long-distance. Eventually Marita moved to France. She wrote a book about her experiences of settling into France in a mostly non-fiction book in Afrikaans called Die Hart van ons Huis. In France she misses friends and family, and Marmite, jelly and wholemeal rusks. After writing Griet Kom Weer, she took Alain and the children on a trip through South Africa, ending up in Namibia. Marita is now working on a new novel about a South African couple in France on a sabbatical.