The result of an illegal affair between a white British woman and black South African man, during apartheid, 'Karoline' is classified as 'white', but her true parentage soon emerges. At 6 weeks old she is secreted out of SA under the pretense of needing medical treatment in the UK. On returning, her biological mother says her newborn has died abroad. Karoline is adopted by a white British couple. Plagued by questions surrounding her identity, she returns 'home' at 26, to face her inner demons.
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Sara-Jayne King. Killing Karoline
Killing Karoline
Sara-Jayne King
Prologue
CHAPTER 1. What’s in a name?
CHAPTER 2. An immoral act
CHAPTER 3. Killing Karoline
CHAPTER 4. Sarah Jane is adopted
CHAPTER 5. Unhappy birthday
CHAPTER 6. Black like me
CHAPTER 7. Brown girl in the ring
CHAPTER 8. All things fall apart
CHAPTER 9. The letter
CHAPTER 10. The fallout
CHAPTER 11. The resurrection
CHAPTER 12. Persona non grata
CHAPTER 13. Play dead, stay dead
CHAPTER 14. The learning years
CHAPTER 15. Higher learning
CHAPTER 16. Escape
CHAPTER 17. Homecoming
CHAPTER 18. Cuckoo’s nest
CHAPTER 19. The beloved country
CHAPTER 20. Rejection
CHAPTER 21. Rock bottom
CHAPTER 22. Brother, who art thou?
CHAPTER 23. Home
CHAPTER 24. A fitting end
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
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A MEMOIR
‘Just don’t write a book about it.’
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(Hush, hush, hush-a-bye little man, Be quiet, baby, Be quiet, Daddy will be back in the morning. Hush, hush, hush-a-bye little man, Be quiet, baby, Be quiet, Daddy will be back in the morning.)
I like to imagine that when he walked into a room, he did so with his eyes up, his feet unapologetic, his chest proud. When they called him ‘kaffir’ he would smile. When they smiled and called him Jackson, he would raise a correcting finger and say ‘Mr Tau’, and when they called him ‘kaffir’ again, he would, in turn, smile again. I pretend I know my father. I pretend to know that his greatest desire in life was to be a good man. That his indiscretion with my biological mother didn’t mean he loved his wife any less. Rather, he saw someone breaking, ready to shatter, and felt compelled to protect her. In my mind my father is Othello.
