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Description: 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
Title: Johannesburg
Author(s): Melrose Fiona
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781472152862
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 8/2/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: 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
Title: Johannesburg
Author(s): Melrose Fiona
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781472152862
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 8/2/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction