A Clergyman's Daughter [pre-order]

A Clergyman’s Daughter is about growing up in a religious community in a rapidly changing South Africa.

My father, the son of a family of happy Greek pagans, found God and a vocation. An irreverent Reverend, he served a small, largely white, parish in the unglamourous northern suburbs of Cape Town for four decades. Over that time many changes took place; in our country, in our suburb, in our church, and in ourselves.

Growing up I didn’t want people to know my father was a minister. I didn’t choose it. And it came with such moral baggage, so many assumptions.

My book is about trying to get to the bottom of whatever it was that I was brought up in, to understand a religious people in all their halting holiness. It is a memoir about our need for love and community in a changing world and a case for trying to understand each other even when we don’t.

(To be published in late 2025 by Modjaji Books, an independent feminist press based in Cape Town.)

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"A wholesome, spiky, comforting, challenging and very funny memoir about the extraordinariness of the ordinary." - Helen Moffett. 

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Will be posted to your door via Pudo once released.

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If you are outside South Africa please email me at hannah.botsis@gmail.com and I will let you know when and where you can purchase the book once it is out in the world. Thank you!