Ceri Leigh Berry has a degree in education with majors in art, English and maths. She worked as a special needs teacher before starting her own family. She is mother to three exceptionally brilliant young adults and lives in South Africa, between Gauteng and the Western Cape, surrounded by dogs and horses. She spends as much time as possible in the Karoo town of Prince Albert where she finds inspiration in the harsh landscape and slows down enough to write from dawn to dusk. She loves nature, art, history, food and travel but most of all loves storytelling. Ceri has been quietly writing poetry and stories since she can remember. Isaiah’s Mountain is her first novel.
May 1901. Jo stands alone, ready to meet her fate, as British soldiers come thundering up the dusty track of her farm. She has not raised a white flag, it is pointless; the British are burning homesteads to the ground. Choked by the acrid smell of farmlands and livestock, blazing in the valley, Jo s...
