Johannesburg | 
pickFor a story that takes place in the span of 12 hours, the author managed to cover a lot of ground. While I thought the passing of Nelson Mandela would fit more heavily into the plot, it was an interesting piece of SA history to add to the tension. Using many local voices to narrate the day, Melrose expertly captures the complexity and intensity of Joburg. Great writing, ok story but would recommend and try another by this author. #BorrowNotBuy
Enjoying this multi “voiced” story set in Johannesburg on the day Nelson Mandela (Tata) has died. The author is clearly a native of SA as the reader can feel every hectic, frantic hum of the country. Using this for #SetInADay #Pop19
#BookMail 🎉🎉🎉Ordered this from #BookDepository because I fell for the pretty cover and the price was right☺️I‘m more excited about the bookmark 🥰 Has anyone read this author before??? This could be my #NewToYouAuthor #Booked2019 and it‘s #SetInOneDay #pop19 (yes, I‘m already tossing my planned TBR out the window😆) #MoodReader
bailedBailed on page 40. Sadly, Second Novel Syndrome hobbles this, after Melrose‘s wonderful debut Midwinter last year in which the prose flowed like water and the characters leapt off the page. Here the writing does not sing and the characters refuse to dance.
Starting this Advanced Readers Copy and am a little nervous that it might be very emotional. It's a story told from differing people's perspectives in Johannesburg, South Africa on the day that former President Nelson Mandela (Tata Mandela to many) passed away. It's off to a good start! I do love that cover. If it's good, I will probably seek a physical copy for my African literature collection.
I literally opened this parcel 3 minutes ago. Look at this beauty: Melrose's second novel – I adored her first, Midwinter - and an homage to Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," which I read for the 3rd time to prepare to read this, and set in (you guessed it) Joburg on the day that Nelson Mandela (my all-time hero) died. Oh my God, it's a perfect storm of a novel for yours truly! Oh, and note the resonance with Hogarth Press covers à la Vanessa Bell...
I'm not even halfway through her Baileys-Prize-long-listed debut, Midwinter, but I'm already totally stoked about this, her second novel, coming in August 2017 – "a circadian narrative, based on Virginia Woolf‘s Mrs Dalloway and set on the day Nelson Mandela died."
