Di Van der Westhuizen

I am a South African-born author who took a quantum leap of faith and resigned from my job to follow my passion: writing. I have drawn on my love of fantasy, humour and the perseverance of the human spirit to weave the tale in my first young adults book, The Power Eater. But, more than anything else, it was my concern for the way we treat animals who cannot speak for themselves that was the driving force behind the novel. A quotation from the book says it all: "Morbidius Ultimatum understands that damage is done one butterfly at a time, one tree at a time, one bullet at a time".