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Half a Life Away

by Karen Phillips

Not all prisons have walls.

  • 2 hr 38 min listen
  • 15 chapters
  • Published 12 March 2026
Racial InjusticeAtonementSecrets and LiesSurvivor's GuiltWrongful Conviction
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A childhood silence destroyed an entire family. Daniel Pearson, a celebrated mixed-race documentary filmmaker in London, hasn't returned to South Africa in twenty-five years—not since his father's lie tore apart the lives of the people closest to him. When a handmade bracelet and a dying woman's plea arrive in the post, Daniel is forced back to Johannesburg to confront his oldest friend, now imprisoned and bitter, and a betrayal far deeper than he ever imagined. Some debts can't be repaid, only reckoned with.

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