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About the Author

Mohale Mashigo, born Kgomotso Carol Mashigo (and also known by her stage name Black Porcelain) is a South African singer-songwriter, novelist, and former radio presenter.Her debut novel The Yearning (Pan Macmillan, 2016) won the 2017 University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Debut Writing and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018. She lives in Cape Town.

Author’s Note
Intruders: noun /in  tru dəz/

This one is for a girl who always saves a Boy Who Lived; for delicate and invisible boys; lost souls with praying mothers (even a heathen like me has a praying mother); those who raise themselves in a world that doesn’t care whether they live or die, the progeny of forgotten legends; those who have lost too much and have nothing but themselves; for young love and old heartbreak; the ones who fall asleep with a man and wake up next to a monster; for monster slayers and makers; for those who were spat out onto the streets; for the weird, the wonderful … and us, who never see ourselves in the stars but die in seas searching for them. You are everything.