In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father--a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.

Sequel to: Boyhood, and Youth.

Notebooks 1972-75 -- Julia -- Margot -- Adriana -- Martin -- Sophie -- Notebooks: undated fragments.