The Polygamist’s creator says women see themselves reflected in her Netflix hit

Sue Nyathi says people call her an overnight success but "the work has been put in over many years" When Sue Nyathi sent her debut novel The Polygamist to publishers, "they thought there was no market for the book" about a married Zimbabwean man and the women he seduces, she says." In the novel, Nyathi's heroine, Joyce, believes she has married into a union of one man and one woman, yet her husband, Jonasi, marries and sets up homes with three other women behind her back.

Nyathi is now finishing the first draft of a historical novel which she has been working on for the past two years - she says the themes will resonate with many people.