Love Child

An enthralling new novel from the highly acclaimed author of Becoming Jane Eyre.  Sheila Kohler's memoir Once We Were Sisters is now available.

The compelling story of a forbidden marriage, a baby lost, and a love triangle gone horribly wrong, Love Child centers on Bill, a South African woman whose life has been defined by the apartheid-era, class-riven society in which she lives. Under pressure to make her will, Bill is forced to think about the momentous events and decisions that have made her an extremely wealthy if somewhat disillusioned woman. To whom should she leave her fortune? As Bill relives her past, we learn that this is a simple question with a complicated answer. In elegant, sensual, and nuanced prose, Kohler skillfully explores the space between our dreams and our reality, between our hopes and our disappointments.

"Her work is both spare and sensuous-understated and fraught with tension... involving the reader intensely in the narrative"
-Joyce Carol Oates, author of We Were the Mulvaneys

"Her stories are elegant, smooth, and gorgeously sensual, belying the tension that crackles beneath. Long after I've finished reading one of her stories, the image continues to pulse."
-Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club

"There is a territory-fictional and psychological-that Sheila Kohler has now marked as her own... I am full of admiration."
-J.M. Coetzee (on One Girl)

"Sheila Kohler's timeless stories are always transporting. The elegance of her writing underscores the charged, disturbing behavior she presents so vividly."
-Amy Hempel, author of The Collected Short Stories of Amy Hempel

"A stirring exploration of...passion and resentments."
-The Washington Post Book World (on Becoming Jane Eyre)