A CONSPIRACY OF MOTHERS, a novel

333pp., paperback, Little A, New York, 2021

ISBN: 978154202349

Novel set in South Africa in 1994.

Yolande, classified Coloured under the apartheid-era Population Registration Act and now living in exile, returns to South Africa to visit her mother. She wants to reconnect with her estranged daughter, born of a love affair with a white man under the Immortality Act, and discovers that the man's mother is desperate to keep her son's 'crime' a secret.

Colleen van Niekerk grew up in Cape Town and now lives in Canada. A Conspiracy of Mothers is her debut novel.