Daunt Books

After bearing four children by her master's son, and faced with the prospect of being sold on to new owners, slave-woman Philida risks her whole life by lodging a complaint against him. With Muslim slave Labyn, she sets off on a journey across the great wilderness on the banks of the Gariep River, to the far north of Cape Town. Set in 1830s South Africa, amidst whispers of slave liberation, Brink’s Booker-longlisted novel is a moving story of one woman’s determination to survive.

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