The Promise

Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction

One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.

On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land... yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored.

As each decade passes, and the family assemble again, one question hovers over them. Can you ever escape the repercussions of a broken promise?

Paperback: 320 Pages
Product Dimensions: 129 x 198 mm
ISBN: 9781529113877

Published by Vintage UK