“A quote from Reggie van Riet, one of the main characters, which sums up the power dynamics on Robben Island: “ What a fool he’d been to think fair play counted for something with the men who were in charge of the Island! Officially of course, that was only Saunders and the Commissioner, but Mr Wade was in charge of the all-important government ferry from the mainland, and Mr Gubb was in charge of the stores that arrived. They were all in it together, behaving like the rulers of kingdoms he had read about as a child. He gave a bitter laugh. And what a kingdom it was! This miserable collection of society’s outcasts and junior officials who dared not oppose their authority!” NovelMentalhealthCapetownHistoricnovelLepersettlementColonislismEarlycapetownOutofmindRobbenisland Author:Barbara Townsend SA