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He never returns. Nine years later, two government officials, working on a census, find a white child living with a Coloured family in the mountains on the other side of the forest. They take him away from the stricken Fiela, who has brought him up, and give him back to his &#8216;original&#8217; family.<\/p><p>Whipped into using a new name and calling strangers &#8216;ma&#8217; and &#8216;pa&#8217;, Benjamin is so stunned that the cannot cry and waits for Fiela to reclaim him. But Fiela, powerless before authority, never comes. So Benjamin has to grow up before he can go in search of the truth.<\/p><p><em>QUOTES FROM FIELA&#8217;S CHILD<\/em><br \/>\u201cBut memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201c&#8230;unhappiness was something you got used to or something that passed.\u201d<\/p><p><em>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/em><br \/>Dalene Matthee (nee Scott) matriculated in 1957 and went on to study music at a conservatorium in Oudtshoorn as well as at the Holy Cross Covent in Graaff-Reinet.<\/p><p>Before gaining fame and wide acclaim for her first &#8220;forest novel&#8221;, she also wrote stories for magazines as well as two popular novels &#8211; \u2019n Huis vir Nadia (A House for Nadia) (1982) and Petronella van Aarde, burgemeester (Petronella van Aarde, Mayor) (1983).<\/p><p>Kringe in \u2019n bos (Circles in a forest) (1984), a novel about the extermination of the elephants and the exploitation of the woodcutters of the Knysna forest, was an international success. 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