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Miranda Sherry
Miranda Sherry grew up in Johannesburg in a house filled with books, and was seven when she began writing stories. A few decades, numerous strange jobs (including puppeteer, bartender and musician), and many manuscripts later, her latest work, Black Dog Summer, is being published by Head of... show more

Miranda Sherry grew up in Johannesburg in a house filled with books, and was seven when she began writing stories. A few decades, numerous strange jobs (including puppeteer, bartender and musician), and many manuscripts later, her latest work, Black Dog Summer, is being published by Head of Zeus.Her first novel, Days Like Glass, was shortlisted for the EU Literary Award in South Africa in 2005.Miranda currently lives in Johannesburg with her sort-of-husband and two weird cats.Find out more at http://www.mirandasherry.com/
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Buried In Print
Buried In Print rated it 10 years ago
Sally is thirty-eight-years old when she is killed; then, she begins to narrate Black Dog Summer. A novel can be narrated by death (like Markus Zuzak's The Book Thief), a dog (as in Edward Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle), or a drug (consider James Hannaham's Delicious Foods). So, the decis...
Beamis12
Beamis12 rated it 10 years ago
3.5 I was not a big lover of Lovely Bones, and this book too is narrated by the recent dead, but for some reason I liked this one. I, know the atmosphere had much to do with this, it was melancholy and psychological but not without hope. The location too played into it, South Africa post apartheid w...
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