The Enchanted Grove (by Stephen Hayes)

When we lived in the United States for a couple of years, almost three decades ago, I first became involved with email and ‘bulletin boards’ which were the precursor to online forums or groups. I’m still in touch with some of the folk I ‘met’ there, where we had many interesting discussions and debates. One of them is Steve Hayes, who is a not-quite-retired teacher and writer in South Africa. In recent years he has published a couple of children’s novels; this is the second of them. 

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