The Magistrate of Gower

Novel The Magistrate of Gower spans three decades in South Africa and captures large swathes of history in compelling, concise detail.
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Title: The Magistrate of Gower
Author: Claire Robertson
Genre: Historical novel
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Imprint: Umuzi
Cape Town, South Africa 2015
ISBN 9781415207642 / ISBN 978-1-41-520764-2
Hardcover, dustjacket, 14 x 22 cm, 328 pages

About: Magistrate of Gower

Claire Robertson's novel The Magistrate of Gower spans three decades in South Africa, the defeat of the Boers in 1902, the proclamation of the Union and the National Party coming to power. It captures large swathes of history in compelling, concise detail. When an illicit affair in British Ceylon comes to light in 1902, seventeen-year-old Boer prisoner-of-war Henry Vos is disgraced. Months before, a short film made his face widely recognisable, but now he is shunned by Boer and Brit alike. Three decades later, Henry Vos is the magistrate of Gower, a small inland town in the Union of South Africa, where he makes friends with young newcomer Adaira van Brugge. Adaira’s story will start to echo Henry’s when she takes a secret lover: Ira Gevint, a Jew who fled Europe only to wind up in a town ready to experiment with its own kind of persecution. As events threaten to unravel the careful life Henry has created for himself, desire surfaces alongside nationalist fervour in Claire Roberston’s arresting new novel about the courage to choose love over fear.

Claire Robertson is the author of The Spiral House, winner of the 2014 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and a South African Literary Award, and shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize, and The Magistrate of Gower, shortlisted for the 2016 Sunday Times Fiction Prize, and Under Glass, shortlisted for the 2019 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Claire Robertson lives in Simon’s Town.

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