THE COMRADE'S WIFE

203pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2024

Novel about an academic's turbulent marriage to a rising politician.

"Wonderfully plotted, emotionally rich, clever, and full of intrigue… Find a quiet, comfortable corner and settle in because you won’t want to leave Anita’s superb company until she’s finished her story." Nadia Davids, author of An Imperfect Blessing

"Tender, delightful, frightening. A testimony to Boswell’s inexhaustible vision." Pumla Dineo Gqola, author of Female Fear Factory

Barbara Boswell is Associate Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of Grace: A novel (2018 UJ Prize for Debut Creative Writing), And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African women’s novels as feminism and Lauretta Ngcobo: Writing as the practice of freedom. At present she is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.