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Large thick, soft cover
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"Pieternella, Daughter of Eva" by Dalene Matthee is a historical novel set in the early days of the first white settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. The story follows Pieternella, the daughter of the Danish surgeon Pieter van Meerhoff and the Hottentot woman Krotoa-Eva, who has been banished to Robben Island.
Against their will, the fourteen-year-old Pieternella and her younger brother, Salomon, are sent to their godparents in Mauritius, marking the start of many hardships. The novel provides a new perspective on the cruel early history of Robben Island and the former penal colony of Mauritius.