About the Book
Spilt Milk is the story of two passionate people who share a shameful past and a tenuous present. Decades after a childhood love affair earns upright school principal Mohumagadi and disgraced preacher Father Bill expulsion from their communities, the two characters are brought back together under the most unlikely of circumstances.
Mohumagadi, headmistress of the elite Sekolo sa Dotlhora School for talented black children, takes in Father Bill as a teacher, much to the dismay of her students and faculty. Thus begins a battle of wills and wits for the hearts and minds of the students living in the shadow of revolution and change. A parable for our times, Spilt Milk is the new novel by EU Literary Award winner and bestselling author, Kopano Matlwa.
About the Author
Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is a South African medical doctor and author, currently undertaking a D.Phil (PhD) in Population Health at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She is the founder of Transitions Foundations, an organisation that seeks to help South Africa�s youth transition from hopelessness to personal fulfillment through education. Kopano is a published fiction writer, the winner of the European Literary Award (2007) and joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa(2010).
