Botha's Hill Botha's Hill Botha's Hill is a small town outside Hillcrest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is the gateway to the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Kearsney College moved to Botha's Hill in 1939. Alan Paton, a famous author who wrote novels such as Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope moved here and resided here until his death on the 12th of April, 1988. He was aged 85. The village is 37km north-west of Durban, on the old main road to Pietermaritzburg before the N3 highway was built. It was named after a settler, Philip Rudolph Botha, grandfather
Cry to Heaven "The New York Times" called it a "dark, humid melodrama" and enjoyed the historical details and Tonio's "emotional development", although she wrote that the secondary characters were two-dimensional and superficial. Additionally, she stated that Rice's frequent foreshadowing and the clichéd and emotionally overwrought dialogue detracted from the novel's appeal. Writing for "The Los Angeles Times Book Review", Pat Hilton wrote that, excepting the conclusion, "Cry to Heaven" was "satisfying", and felt that its questions about masculinity were contemporary. Cry to Heaven Cry to Heaven is a novel by American author Anne Rice published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1982. Taking