# Johannesburg

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- Book: [Johannesburg](https://www.bookquiver.com/fiona-melrose/johannesburg) ([Johannesburg.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fiona-melrose/johannesburg.md))
- Authors: [Fiona Melrose](https://www.bookquiver.com/fiona-melrose)
- Publisher: corsair
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7215-285-5
- Published: 2017-08-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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