Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corsair (Feb. 4 2020)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472152867
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 62
• Item weight ‏ : ‎ 214 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm
• Best Sellers Rank: #747,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2,683 in Politcal Fiction #15,818 in Family Life #54,832 in Literary Fiction (Books)
• #2,683 in Politcal Fiction
• #15,818 in Family Life

6 December 2013. It is a searing hot day in Johannesburg. Gin has returned to the city of her birth to throw a party for her mother's eightieth birthday. She is determined, with lists and meals and flower arrangements, to show that she has become a fully capable woman. She knows, deep down, her mother will only ever see a lost cause. Meanwhile outside, crowds of citizens and the world's media have gathered to hear the expected announcement: Nelson Mandela has died. Set across the course of a single momentous day and narrated by a chorus of voices, Fiona Melrose's second novel is a hymn to an extraordinary city and its people, an ambitious homage to Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, and a devastating personal and political manifesto on mothers and daughters, justice and love. 'Beautifully observed' Mail on Sunday 'Woolf produced blooms that are impossible to emulate. Johannesburg provides evidence of a novelist who can grow inimitable flowers herself' Spectator Read more