The Immortalites, the highly anticipated new novel by Claire Robertson, is out now from Penguin Random House SA!

The Immortalites follows a young woman abandoned on her way to South Africa in the late 1800s. With no home, no protection and no real choice, she joins a rough band of settlers crossing a land on the brink of war.

This is a novel about making a life in a place that offers no mercy.

About the book

Ellie Kent longs to belong.

Abandoned as a child and raised in the bleak confines of an asylum, Ellie is taken into service as a governess by a family bound for the distant colony of South Africa. But before reaching their destination, she is abandoned once more – cast adrift in a land as vast as it is unforgiving.

Left with no choice but to join a caravan of settlers, Ellie finds herself in the company of a questionable trader, a mysterious opera singer, and a young Afrikaner, Gysbert de Boer, tasked with delivering her safely to an uncertain future. As war brews on the horizon and the settlers struggle for survival in a land that offers little mercy, Ellie must carve out a home – or be lost to the wilderness forever.

A sweeping frontier fable, The Immortalites is a masterfully crafted tale of survival, sacrifice and the search for belonging.

Categories Fiction South Africa

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