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Lying Perfectly Still

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A searing, suspenseful story of a woman’s confrontation with the sinister legacy of British colonialism in Southern Africa.

Koliwe has grown up between two worlds: England, her white mother’s home country, where she was born and raised, and Eswatini, the homeland her father left behind. When her father dies unexpectedly, Koliwe takes a job as an aid worker for a British-run nonprofit in Eswatini. There, her belief in the necessity of international aid is tested by the harsh reality of a divi...