REBEKKA VAN KAMEELDOORNPLAAS

508pp., paperback, Lapa, Midrand, 2026

ISBN: 9780637003179

Historical novel.

Rebekka, who as a child spent time in an Anglo-Boer War concentration camp, is forced to work as a nanny for the wealthy Professor Wright, owner of Kameeldoorn farm, and then to move with the family to Oxford, where she eventually has to figure out for herself who she really is, and where she belongs.

Irma Joubert is a former teacher, a journalist and an author of historical fiction. Her previous novels include the Tussen stasies-trilogie, the Pontenilo-trilogie and the Oorlogstrilogie.