Bodies Politic

Set against the background of the struggle for votes for women and the looming tragedy of the First World War, Michiel Heyns''s novel examines the private lives of the participants in these events, focused through the highly articulate accounts of three suffragettes: Emmeline Pankhurst, the formidable leader of the Women''s Movement; her daughter Sylvia, ''the weeping suffragette''; and the enchan...