Set during a single day in Johannesburg - the day of Nelson Mandela\'s death - 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 love..
Set during a single day in Johannesburg - the day of Nelson Mandela\'s death - 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 love.