Author Sue Nyathi is one of the very few authors who has undoubtedly mastered the art of accentuating the day to day realities of ordinary people in our society especially us women, a literary force, in her third book titled ‘A Family Affair’, we are introduced to the Mafu's, which is a close-knit traditional family with three daughters who seem close with a united spirit, but all changes when a devastating secret is relieved followed by events that threaten to tear the family apart.