South Africa together.
Having settled in England because of him, she's made her life there. Does she really want to go back?
She also recognises that her ideas on women's liberation are Eurocentric, and worries that they are irrelevant to the new South Africa. Does she have a place there?
This is an interesting story of a particular experience arisThe struggle did not stop in South Africa: but how will the returned exiles respond ing from the long struggle in South Africa. However, anyone who reads this for a wider angle on South African history, or seeking political analysis of the present situation, is likely to be disappointed.
While AnnMarie Wolpe is interested in politics, she was never an activist in the same way as her husband, was never in the SACP and only joined the ANC in the 1980s.
There is no real discussion of the ANC's politics. There are only ten pages on the Wolpes' life since their return to South Africa, dealing largely with their three grownup children.
This is best read as a story of how events affected an individual woman, rather than as an account of participation in those events.