Barbara Boswell and her new novel The Comrade’s Wife (Supplied)
Barbara Boswell’s novel The Comrade’s Wife explores the turbulent marriage of a rising politician and an academic, Anita, told through her eyes. ‘Some politicians are as immoral at home as they are in the halls of government,’ said author Rehana Rossouw of this book.
‘The Comrade’s Wife is a wonderful account of the political made personal.’ Nadia Davids called it ‘Wonderfully plotted, emotionally rich, clever, and full of intrigue… Find a quiet, comfortable corner and settle in because you won’t want to leave Anita’s superb company until she’s finished her story.’
Boswell is the author of And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women Novels as Feminism (2020), which examines how Black South African women writers use fiction as a tool of activism, and the novel Grace (2017), about gender-based violence, which won the University of Johannesburg’s Debut Creative Writing Prize. She is a professor of literary studies at UCT.
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