CHILDREN OF SUGARCANE

352pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2021

Historical novel set in 19th century India and colonial Natal. Shanti, an Indian teenager, travels to South Africa to work on the sugarcane plantations, hoping to escape poverty, the caste system and an arranged marriage.

"Joanne Joseph has skilfully crafted fact into fiction. May Shanti's story inspire others to tell herstory." Preggs Govender, author of Love and Courage: a story on insubordination

South African media personality Joanne Joseph is the author of Drug Muled. Children of Sugarcane is her debut novel.