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This One Sky Day

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This One Sky Day by Leone Ross is a vibrant journey set on the imagined Caribbean archipelago of Popisho. The story weaves together various characters, including a gifted healer, as they navigate personal and magical challenges in a single day. The narrative explores themes of love, redemption, and the complexities of human connections against a backdrop of unique magical realism.
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You might enjoy this book if you're drawn to magical realism, vivid storytelling, and richly detailed worlds. It offers a sensory journey through an island setting with a captivating mix of the fantastical and the everyday, marked by vibrant characters and intricate narratives. If you appreciate tales that explore themes of love, loss, and resilience in imaginative ways, this book may appeal to you.

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This One Sky Day

A sensual meditation on the nature of love and addiction, this dazzling and incisive novel satirises postcolonial society and celebrates oddness.

A sensual meditation on the nature of love and addiction, this dazzling and incisive novel satirises postcolonial society and celebrates oddness.

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Dawn 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 cook
  • An infidelity to investigate
  • A lost soul to set free

As 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.

This One Sky Day by Leone Ross captures a day of wonders and transformations in a vivid and enchanting landscape.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571358007

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 April 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 757g

Pages: 480

About the Author

Leone Ross was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her first novel, All the Blood Is Red, was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and her second novel, Orange Laughter,was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour Watershed Fiction favourite. Her short fiction has been widely anthologised and her first short-story collection, the 2017 Come Let Us Sing Anyway was nominated for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and the OCM BOCAS Prize. Ross has taught creative writing for twenty years, at University College Dublin, Cardiff University and Roehampton University in London. She is editor of the first black British anthology of speculative fiction, due out in 2022 with Peepal Tree Press. Prior to writing fiction, Ross worked as a journalist. Leone Ross lives in London but intends to retire near water.

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