This One Sky Day : LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE 2022

£8.99

by Ross, Leone | Caribbean islands
Published 17/03/2022 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 480 pages

ISBN: 9780571358021 Category:

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SHORLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS’Dazzling’ Cosmopolitan’I deeply admire This One Sky Day – and also, not so secretly, bitterly envy it…’ MARLON JAMES’Gorgeous’ Financial Times’Haunting’ Independent’Wonderfully fearless’ New Statesman’Stunning’ KEI MILLERDawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do:A wedding feast to conjure and cookAn infidelity to investigateA lost soul to set freeAs the sun rises two star-crossed lovers try to find their way back to one another across this single day. When night falls, all have been given a gift, and many are no longer the same.

The sky is pink, and some wonder if it will ever be blue again.

What readers are saying’Brimming with and life and love and just absolutely gorgeous writing. a one-of-a-kind novel.”I couldn’t put it down and I will be recommending it to everyone.”A story luxuriously and confidently told, which is sumptuous from sentence to sentence. There is both literal and literary magic here.”This book is bursting at the seams with beauty! Magic! Love! Imagination! It is a burst of colour and flame.”It’s hard to explain, but if you love getting lost in a story, this could be one for you.’

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Weight 0.388 kg