The Spiral House by Claire Robertson
Katrijn van der Caab, freed slave and wigmaker's apprentice, travels with her eccentric employer from Cape Town to Vogelzang, a remote farm where a hairless girl needs their services. The year is 1794, it is the age of enlightenment, and on Vogelzang the master is conducting strange experiments in human breeding and classification. It is also here that Trijn falls in love. Two hundred years later and a thousand miles away, Sister Vergilius, a nun at a mission hospital, wants to free herself from an austere order. It is 1961 and her life intertwines with that of a gentleman farmer - an Englishman and suspected Communist - who collects and studies insects and lives a solitary life. While a group of Americans arrive in a cavalcade of caravans and a new republic is about to be born, desire is unfurling slowly. In Claire Robertson's majestic debut novel, two stories echo across centuries to expose that which binds us and sets us free.
Claire Robertson lives in Simon's Town. She has spent the past 30 years as a journalist, reporting from South Africa, the us and ussr. She has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio and television, and now works as a senior copy editor on the Sunday Times. She has won awards for her reporting and her work is carried in several anthologies. The Spiral House is her first work of fiction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781415203842 |
| ISBN 10 | 1415203849 |
| Title | The Spiral House |
| Author | Claire Robertson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House South Africa |
| Year published | 2013-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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