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Twisted desire, haunting secrets, and the fragile line between sanity and possession.
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Cape Fever

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    240 pages

  • Release Date

    14 January 2027

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Summary

‘A cleverly told and ultimately satisfying novel, by an author bold enough to reveal uncomfortable truths’ Claire Adam, Guardian

‘Efficient, and unsettling… Davids assembles the requisite parts of a Gothic novel – a hysterical woman, a haunted dwelling, a perverse family secret – into an elegant narrative’ New York Times Book Review

An exhilarating tale of twisted desire and the unexpected shape of justice, for readers of *The…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781398544079
ISBN-10:1398544078
Author:Nadia Davids
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Imprint:Scribner UK
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:14 January 2027
Dimensions:15mm x 130mm x 198mm
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Cape Fever by Nadia Davids - ISBN: 9781398544079
130 × 198 mm
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A4
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About The Author

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids is an acclaimed South African playwright, novelist, academic, and former President of PEN South Africa.

Her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing, was shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature. Her plays, At Her Feet and What Remains, have been staged internationally. She has been a visiting scholar/artist at the University of California, Berkeley, and at New York University, the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize, and has taught theater at Queen Mary University of London and literature at the University of Cape Town.

Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The American Scholar, Astra Magazine, The Georgia Review, and Zyzzyva Magazine. She won the 2024 Caine Prize for her short story, “Bridling.”

She lives in California and was a writer in residence at Aspen Writes.

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