“It’s shaded by being a white South African who grew up in apartheid. She appeals in desperation to Magdalene, a black psychotherapist who uses narrative therapy to treat “white South Africans struggling with extreme feelings of guilt”. “When you take up your pen as an author, you’re taking up a position of power,” she says. For the author, writing is a way of processing these complex feelings. You’re crafting it.”• In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey is out now through Penguin

Source: The Guardian February 25, 2018 19:30 UTC