Karen Jennings

From the Booker and Women’s Prize long-listed author comes a novel about the week leading up to the moment all slaves were freed in South Africa.

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubled past in this taut and compelling novel from the Booker Prize longlisted author of An Island.

Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, a powerful and suspenseful literary novel set on an island off the African coast. While the story takes place across four days, it reveals the echoes of decades of civil war, rebellion and loss.