RaveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Behind the cover of his book lies an intense, unsparing and at times almost unbearably intimate exploration of one of the world’s most famous, most mythical marriages ... This is a book to make one wince, and gasp, and turn the page – a book that slowly, remorselessly, tears the bandages off South Africa’s carefully constructed image of itself, and of a partnership that lies at the heart of this country’s \'miraculous\' transformation from racialized tyranny to democracy. Above all this is a book about rage ... Unflinching to the point of intrusiveness ... Steinberg admits that much of his freshest material – the most furious exchanges between the couple – comes from scribbled records taken by apartheid prison officials, then stolen and hidden for decades
