Mw;Madam This Is Annie

Set in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, Dianne Case's gripping novel shows Annie, a black South African woman, struggling to raise her children against a background of extreme personal, economic and political hardship. Annie vividly tells her own story in a series of internal monologues addressed to her white employer, 'Madam'. With a combination of delicacy and devastating irony the narrative shows how these women are drawn together by mutual liking and sympathy and how their lives share numerous parallels, and yet how absolutely their experiences are separated by the inequalities of apartheid.