VLAM VAN DIE SPROKKELHOUT

256pp., paperback, Queillerie, Cape Town, 2026 

ISBN: 9780795803413

Historical novel

Maré l’Abillionni travels from Portugal to Madagascar in search of her lost niece and, years later, after boarding the slave ship Meermin, washes up in Struisbaai, shattered and broken.

Two hundred and fifty-eight years later, heartbroken journalist Hetta Uys arrives in Agulhas to sell her grandmother’s 'haunted house'. Finding an old diary, she is drawn into a long-forgotten story - one that could shape her future.

SD Fourie is the author of romance novels and radio dramas, including Noorman and Die Reis. She lives in Gansbaai.