Killing Karoline: a memoir

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Born Karoline King in 1980 in Johannesburg South Africa, Sara-Jayne (as she will later be called by her adoptive parents) is the result of an affair, illegal under apartheid's Immorality Act, between a white British woman and a black South African man. Her story reveals the shocking lie created to cover up the forbidden relationship, and the hurried overseas adoption of the illegitimate baby, born during one of history's most inhumane and destructive regimes.Killing Karoline follows the journey of the baby girl (categorised as ‘white' under South Africa's race classification system) who is raised in a leafy, middle-class corner of the South of England by a white couple. It takes the reader through her formative years, a difficult adolescence and into adulthood, as Sara-Jayne (Karoline) seeks to discover who she is and where she came from.Plagued by questions surrounding her own identity and unable to ‘fit in' Sara-Jayne begins to turn on herself. She eventually...