{"product_id":"books-johannesburg-by-fiona-melrose","title":"Johannesburg","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","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53672335245585,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781472152862.jpg?v=1781519211","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-johannesburg-by-fiona-melrose","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}