CREATESPACE The Boy on a Bike: A Memoir (full colour)

What happens if you are neither white nor black in Apartheid South Africa at its worst? The boy on a bike is neither white nor black. What will become of him? Gerald Searle was born in 1936 and grew up in Cape Town, one of ten children, living in a semi-detached two-bedroom cottage without today’s mod cons. For six years he lived and studied in Rome at a pontifical university on Vatican territory. But on returning to Cape Town as an ordained Catholic priest, he fell in love and left the priesthood to marry. ‘The Boy on a Bike’ is an uncut, warts-and-all story that runs from the shadows of Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain, through a going-nowhere existence on factory floors in the backwoods of Cape Town, to rubbing shoulders with popes and crashing through the Australian ‘Whites-only’ immigration policy to a life in the lucky country. ‘The Boy on a Bike’ reads like a novel, but sometimes truth is stranger, and so much more captivating and enjoyable than fiction. Read the story, and then see ‘The Boy on a Bike’ unfold in over a hundred fascinating photos. If you enjoyed ‘The Thorn Birds’, you’ll enjoy ‘The Boy on a Bike’ a hundred times more.