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
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