Spilt Milk

Spilt Milk, a story of two passionate people who share a shameful past and a tenuous present. Headmistress of the elite Sekolo sa Ditlhora school for talented black children, Mohumagadi and disgraced preacher, Father Bill are brought together again decades after a childhood love affair that expelled them from their communities. Much to the dismay of her students, Mohumagadi takes Father Bill in as a teacher, resulting in a battle of wills and wits for the hearts and minds of the students living in the shadow of revolution and change.

Kopano Matlwa won the 2006/2007 European Union Award for her first novel, Coconut, which went on to become a bestseller and a classic South African novel, and subsequently jointly won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2010. Her successive novels, Spilt Milk and Period Pain, were also published to great acclaim, with Period Pain shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Between them her novels have been translated to close to a dozen languages. When she is not writing, Kopano works as a public health physician. Kopano lives in Johannesburg with her husband and three children.