The Promise

**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021**'A tour de force. . . A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh' Booker Judges, 2021Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in crisis. 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?** A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 AND ONE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S 75 BEST BOOKS OF 2021 ** 'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín 'A masterpiece - one of the best books I have read in the past decade. . . A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth Day'This is so obviously one of the best novels of the year' The Times'Utterly compelling' Patrick Gale'Gorgeous and pleasurable' Tessa Hadley