"Poet and celebrated author Antjie Krog has just published a majestic 'autobiographical novel', ... traversing the lifelong writing bond with her mother, Dot Serfontein ... Serfontein, also a celebrated editor, journalist, essayist, writer of popular short stories and prose, daughter of a Free State cattle farmer and formidable mother of five, including Krog, died at the age of 91 on 4 November 2016. For what she has claimed is her last book, Krog returns to her childhood landscape, not only to capture two significant chapters in well-lived, waning lives, but to excavate a deeper source of epigenetic fear, terror and anxiety always close by.