03209cam a2200517 4500 2651895022 TxAuBib 20260106120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781668090756 1668090759 B0DV6R39SZ Amazon ee9ee612-777a-44ba-adda-5364f964ef3d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11564739 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Davids, Nadia. Cape Fever [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Simon & Schuster, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Caine Prize for African Writing. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. psychological thriller. supernatural mystery. silvia moreno garcia. female protagonist. Historical Fiction. Cultural Heritage. literary fiction. colonial empire. Narrative Power. Mexican Gothic. haunted manor. Gothic themes. Dark Romance. South Africa. gothic novel. what remains. 1920s drama. At Her Feet. Hold Still. Cape Town. HTML:<b>"It's a stunner." —<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b><br /> <br /> <b>From award-winning South African author Nadia Davids comes a gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s, where a young maid finds herself entangled with the spirits of a decaying manor and the secrets of its enigmatic owner.</b><br /> <i>I come highly recommended to Mrs. Hattingh through sentences I tell her I cannot read.</i><br /> <br /> The year is 1920, in 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> <i>Cape Fever</i> is a masterful blend of gothic themes, folk-tales, and psychological suspense, reminiscent of works by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Daphne du Maurier, and Soraya Matas is an unforgettable narrator, whose story of love and grief, is also a chilling exploration of class and the long reach of history. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-01-06 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ee9ee612-777a-44ba-adda-5364f964ef3d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ee9ee612-777a-44ba-adda-5364f964ef3d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)