Sylvia Webber has worked as a teacher and has brought up two children. She has also written Her Story in Four Centuries, and Rider the Runaway.
Sixteen-year-old Ayesha, stateless and illiterate, is reviled at the market selling fish for her family. A group blames her for dynamite fishing, which her family don't do. She grieves the death of her brother. She joins a literacy class for young adults run by Sister Rosa.
