This One Sky Day by Leone Ross

LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE’Dazzling’ Cosmopolitan’Stunning’ Kei Miller’Gorgeous’ Financial Times’Haunting’ Independent’Wonderfully fearless’ New Statesman’I deeply admire This One Sky Day – and also, not so secretly, bitterly envy it…’ Marlon JamesDawn 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 sump