Travels with My Father: An Autobiographical Novel - Softcover

Travels with My Father is a beautifully written autobiographical novel. Written from the point of view of a young woman, daughter and writer, it is a frank, yet delicate and moving, account of her relationship with her father and his influence on her own life.In the footsteps of her father, the author travels the world. Yet, key scenes are set in Plumstead, a suburb of Cape Town, where her father lived most of his life.The relationships and divisions between members of a family that does not wear its heart on its sleeve, and some of whom are real eccentrics, are sensitively recorded. It all adds to an intricate picture of a changing South African society.

Karen Jennings was born in Cape Town in 1982. She has Master's degrees in both English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town and a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.Karen's stories and poetry have been published in journals across the globe, in countries as diverse as Nigeria, Australia and Greece. In 2010 her short story From Dark won the Africa Region prize in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Mia and the Shark won the English section of the Maskew Miller Longman short story competition in 2009 and is now studied in schools.Her debut novel Finding Soutbek was published by Holland Park Press in 2012, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature 2013. Her short story collection Away from the Dead was published by Holland Park Press in 2014.Karen was one of the featured authors in the South African Sunday Times Lifestyle magazine's The Future Fiction Edition to mark the 20th anniversary of South Africa's democracy.Karen currently lives in Brazil.