Francois Bloemhof 
Lady with the purple eye (school edition) 

Chris and Marley are in a new school and from the word go they discover that things are not quite the same as in other schools. Their new friends start to behave strangely, not to mention the guy with no hair and that weird library teacher … When they are slowly but surely sucked into a series of disturbing events, Chris and Marley decide to investigate – and land up in the clutches of the lady with the purple eye.

This school edition of The Lady with the Purple Eye is included in the Department of Basic Education’s National Catalogue for Senior Phase learners. It has been revised and updated with activities for pre-reading and post-reading, questions according to cognitive levels, glossaries and notes on the genre of the novel. Memoranda available online at www.humanrousseau.com.

Über den Autor

François Bloemhof hardly needs any introduction, whether to younger readers or to adult readers – he is the author of a number of very successful and highly acclaimed novels for both readerships. To date he has published more than fifty titles and has won numerous prizes along the way (De Kat-debuutprys, ATKV-Veertjies, the Sanlam-Prize for youth fiction and the FNB/Kagiso-jeugromanprys. He was also a finalist in the Sanlam/Insig-, M-Net-, CAN- en ATKV-romanpryse). He also writes radio and stage dramas, short stories, articles, reviews, etc. François lives in Durbanville and is a freelance language practitioner.