Fiction brings women's stories into the light

This book grabs you by the throat and burrows down into your soul. The characters are so alive - flawed, damaged, yet survivors - that you find yourself forgiving their mistakes and cheering them on, even as you question their motives.

Yet the story did not begin with Beatrice, but Nthebolang, the other main character. She was born in the author's imagination when, while doing research for, she came upon a letter written by Kgosi Sechele to the Setswana newspaper that was published out of the mission at Kuruman in the 1880s. It was about 25 women who were accused of being witches by a girl working as a servant for the local missionary.

Setting out on their own, the pair eventually find uneasy refuge with Kgosi Sechele's people as servants for the resident missionary. It is here that Nthebolang's path crosses that of the tenacious Beatrice, who has found herself trapped in marriage to Thomas Milner, a narcissistic white minister. But Beatrice has no plans to allow this to be her life forever, and she's also determined to save Nthebolang.

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