the promise

the promise

Damon Galgut
Punctuated by four funerals and a changing South Africa, Damon Galgut’s Booker-Prize-winning novel tells the story a disintegrating white family and a broken promise. The repeated failure by various family members to honour a promise made to the black woman who has loyally worked for them for years, comes to define the moral fabric of the family, while also having wider historical resonances.