Claire Robertson is the author of The Spiral House, winner of the 2014 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and a South African Literary Award, and shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize, and The Magistrate of Gower, shortlisted for the 2016 Sunday Times Fiction Prize, and Under Glass, shortlisted for the 2019 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. She lives in Simon’s Town.
Two islands. Two women.
The year is 1289... |
Two islands. Two women.
The year is 1289... |
 Set in Natal in the nineteenth century among the settlers and the homesteaders and the sugar-... |
 Set in Natal in the nineteenth century among the settlers and the homesteaders and the sugar-... |
‘In the end, you could choose to say no more than this: that in the high summer of... |
‘In the end, you could choose to say no more than this: that in the high summer of... |
 Katrijn van der Caab, freed slave and wigmaker’s apprentice, travels with her eccentric... |
 Katrijn van der Caab, freed slave and wigmaker’s apprentice, travels with her eccentric... |
 Katrijn van der Caab, freed slave and wigmaker’s apprentice, travels with her eccentric... |