Trespass by Dawn GarishCondition: Pre loved Phyllis, a middle aged woman in the 1950s, finds work as a matron at a boys boarding school in Cape Town. Haunted by the shame she brought on herself and her family by falling pregnant by her cousin and giving birth to a child at sixteen Phyllis channels her longing into a life of service. When a woman arrives to enrol her young son, Phyllis believes her to be the baby she gave up for adoption as an adolescent. In comforting

The Theory of Flight sketches decades of history in this unnamed Southern African nation

Despite Van Wyk's later becoming involved in the anti-apartheid struggle

Billie -- all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son

He meets Ami

and the women of ISIS were stripped of any agency

It will touch your life and make you believe that every one of us

overcoming obstacles

Her husband

In his memoir

Nafisa now faces the sinister complications of the post-apartheid dispensation and finds herself ostracised once more

and everything feels off

She has a story to tell…