Mercia Murray has been abandoned. Disposed of and dumped by her lover of twenty-four years. She attempts to make sense of a senseless act. After almost a quarter of a century living in Scotland, most of it with Craig, she looks back at her experiences in an attempt to understand them. She is herself a transplant from South Africa – a South Africa she abandoned, disposed of, and dumped in an earlier life. At fifty-two she is called back to South Africa by a letter from her alcoholic brother, Jake. Trying to quiet her broken heart and her dislocated psyche, she goes, only to find herself straddling two worlds and two existences.
 | Zoe WicombZoë Wicomb is a South African writer who lives in Scotland where she is Emeritus Professor in English Studies at Strathclyde University. Her works of fiction are You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, David’s Story (winner of the South African M-Net Prize), <em, The One That Got Away (both shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize) and October. They have been translated into a number of European languages; David’s Story also into Japanese. Her short stories can be found in various literary journals and anthologies including The Penguin Book of South African Short Stories and The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories. Wicomb’s critical writing is on Postcolonial theory and South African writing and culture; her fiction has in turn generated many academic articles and theses. In 2008 her work was the subject of a conference hosted by York University and University of Londonâ’s SOAS. She is a recipient of Yaleâ’s inaugural Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. “Witty in tone, sophisticated in technique, eclectic in language, beholden to no one in its politics, David’s Story is a tremendous achievement and a big step in the making of the South African novel.” – J.M.Coetzee |