As part of the UCT Writers Series, Barbara Boswell was in conversation with Wisani Mushwana at the Book Lounge on Thursday July 4 to talk about her recently released second novel, The Comrade’s Wife.
The Muizenberg author describes the novel as a romance with plots and subplots. Set locally between 2016 and 2018, The Comrade’s Wife follows a turbulent marriage between a rising politician and an academic. Boswell touches on themes of ascending class status, transformation, democracy as well as shocking insights from a heterosexual relationship and the lies and betrayals of love and party politics.
Boswell is a feminist literary scholar and Associate Professor of English at UCT. She is the author of Grace: A Novel (2017), which won the 2018 University of Johannesburg Debut Prize for Creative Writing.
Mushwana won the Book Lounge Author of the Year (2023) for his coming-of-age novel, A Soft Landing. He is a PhD candidate in English Literary Studies at UCT.
