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The Woman Next Door

Yewande Omotoso

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The Woman Next Door was longlisted for the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction. Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them. Both have recently been widowed. Both are in their eighties. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility pruned with zeal. But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. Could long-held mutual loathing transform into friendship? Love thy neighbour? Easier said than done.

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Publisher
Random House
Year
2016
ISBN-13
9781473522589
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Race and reconciliation in post-apartheid South AfricaAging and widowhoodFriendship and rivalry between neighbors

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