The second novel from the winner of the Sinclair Prize for Fiction with her first novel. The life and times of the desolate in Kenyan society, striving for survival in a callous world.

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (born 1928) is an English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet

Born Marjorie King in 1928 in Southampton, England,[1] Marjorie travelled to Kenya to work as a missionary in 1954. She worked at the S.J. Moore Bookshop on Government Road, now Moi Avenue in Nairobi, for some years. There she organised readings which were attended by, among others, Okot P'Bitek, the author of Song of Lawino, and Jonathan Kariara, a Kenyan poet. She met Macgoye, a medical doctor, and the two were married in 1960.[1] In 1971, an anthology entitled Poems from East Africa included the acclaimed poem "A Freedom Song".[1] Her 1986 novel Coming to Birth won the Sinclair Prize[1] and has been used as a set book in Kenyan high schools.[citation needed] She has been called the "mother of Kenyan literature".

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