IF I STAY RIGHT HERE

177pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2017

A novel about a journalism student who is sent to a female prison to cover a story on an inmate, and falls in love. A few months later, when the ex-gang member is out of prison, they move in together.

Chwayita Ngamlana was born in Grahamstown and has an MA in Creative Writing. This is her first novel.