Episode 01: Sue Nyathi

For our launch episode of Babble, author Sue Nyathi babbles with Megan Thomas about her journey as schoolyard storyteller to finance analyst to full-time multi-booked author. Sue Nyathi was born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Her writing career began at school where 'Sue's Books' were much-loved by her friends and peers, and she is now a respected and three time novelist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her debut, The Polygamist, is about four women who don't have a lot in common... except their mutual husband. Next came The GoldDiggers, a story about the lives of Zimbabwean immigrants who have fled to Johannesburg in search of a better life. They have all made the journey for different reasons, but face tremendous hardship nonetheless. Her most recent novel, A Family Affair, published in October 2020 by Pan Macmillan, follows the lives of three sisters in a traditional family which seems idyllic from the outside. As we've come to learn from seeming-perfection... that's never the case.