Review: Lansdowne Dearest

Thus, in a sparkling section on starting high school in the earlier 1970s, Bronwyn Davids portrays the shock of emerging from the Catholicism that had blanketed her primary school years into a hothouse of dissent and critical thinking, where she “soon discovered that attending Livingstone High was a lot like taking a flying leap from St Peter’s in the Vatican to the Kremlin in Moscow when Leon Trotsky was still in the politburo”.