Unconfessed
by Yvette Christiansë
Category: Fiction

Driven to the brink of madness by the horrors of slavery to commit an unspeakable crime, Sila van den Kaap, a slave woman in eighteenth-century South Africa, who narrowly escapes the gallows to be confined to the notorious prison on Robben Island, recalls the events of her life, in a debut novel inspired by actual South African court records of the period.