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This is what it is usually to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You merely surely got to listen and do as they tell you. You don't say no. You don't ask questions. You merely do what they tell you. But far behind your head you think: Soon there must come each day when I could say for myself: This and that I will do, this and that I will not. André Brink - "one of South Africa's greatest novelists" (the Telegraph) - gives us his most effective novel yet; the truly unforgettable story of a lady slave, and her fierce determination to survive and be free. It is 1832 in South Africa, the year before slavery is abolished and the slaves are emancipated. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. When Francois's father orders him to marry a female from a prominent Cape Town family, Francois reneges on his promise to give Philida her freedom, threatening instead to market her to new owners in the harsh country up north. Here is the impressive story - predicated on individuals connected to the author's family - of the fiercely independent woman who will accept nothing as well as for no-one. Unwilling to accept the near future that lies before her, Philida continues to test the limits and lodges a complaint against the Brink family. Then she sets off on the journey-from the southernmost reaches of the Cape, across a great wilderness, to the far north of the country - to be able to reclaim her soul.
