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Johannesburg

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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