Under glass
By: Claire Robertson
Publisher: Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781415209707; 9781415209639
Subjects: South African fiction (English)
Description: "Set in Natal in the nineteenth century among the settlers and the homesteaders and the sugar-cane farmers, Claire Robertson⁰́₉s masterful new novel Under Glass  tells the story of Mrs Chetwyn, who arrives in Port Natal from India in 1856. She is with her eldest daughter and her ayah, and has been travelling for eleven months to join her husband, already deep in the hinterland.Her father-in-law has staked them their passage, a sum for settlement and an arrangement for the purchase of land, but there are conditions to his generosity that will have a lasting effect on the Chetwyns, specially on their fifth child, Cosmo, born years later. It is on the Chetwyns⁰́₉ sugar-cane farm that the reader begins to understand that there is something strange about Cosmo, something that must be kept secret or hidden. At once a deeply researched historical novel and an intriguing mystery, Under Glass  is a high-stakes narrative of deception and disguise that will appeal to a range of readers of literary fiction by one of the country⁰́₉s finest novelists"--provided by publisher.