Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night is a collection of short stories set in apartheid South Africa. Divided into two parts. Part one is a collection of interlinked narratives of African women who were enslaved as housemaids in the houses of their white madams and masters. While, the second part is a collection of short stories along the same line.
Similar to "The Help" by Kathryn Sockett, in apartheid many African women could only aspire to work as housemaid in the house of the whites, where they were disgracefully under-payed and in a never-ending position of indebtedness. They lived in their working place. That is, a box they called the maid's room and worked twenty-four-seven. If they were lucky enough to have their child with them, at age five he or she was already
