Cape Fever

SKU: 9781398554238
Cape Fever

Cape Fever

SKU: 9781398554238
Author: Nadia Davids
C-Format·Ages 18+
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At a glance

🌍 Fiction Tone
Literary, atmospheric, emotionally layered, socially observant
⚡ Pace
Character-driven, reflective, immersive
🏙️ Vibes
Cape Town life, social tension, identity struggles, cultural displacement
👑 Themes
Belonging, race, memory, family, reinvention
🧠 Emotional Journey
Emotional introspection, navigating fractured identities, confronting the past
🔥 Hook
Set against the complex social and emotional landscape of Cape Town, intertwined lives grapple with identity, memory, belonging, and the lingering tensions of history and modern life
👀 Perfect For
Fans of thoughtful literary fiction and South African storytelling

An exhilarating tale of twisted desire and the unexpected shape of revenge, for readers of The Safekeep

'I come highly recommended to Mrs Hattingh through sentences I tell her I cannot read.'

1920, a small, unnamed city in a colonial empire. Soraya Matas believes she has found the ideal job as a personal maid to the eccentric Mrs Hattingh, whose beautiful, decaying home is not far from the Muslim quarter where Soraya lives with her parents. As Soraya settles into her new role, she discovers that the house is alive with spirits.

While Mrs Hattingh eagerly awaits her son's visit from London, she offers to help Soraya stay in touch with her fiancé Nour by writing him letters on her behalf. So begins a strange weekly meeting where Soraya dictates and Mrs. Hattingh writes - a ritual that binds the two women to one another and eventually threatens the sanity of both.

'Slim, taut, haunting... an utterly beguiling read' LUCY CALDWELL

'The Cape Town that Nadia Davids summons up in her invaluable body of work is a riven, achingly sad place of shadows, quite unlike the comfortable, sleepy Mother City of the colonial imagination' JM COETZEE

Book details

Format
C-Format
Reading age
18+
Pages
228
Publisher
Scribner
Published
30 December 2025
Language
English
ISBN
9781398554238

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