Forget-me-not blues

Plot

Spanning seven decades of South Africa s social and political evolution, recorded with insight, accuracy and humour, Forget-me-not Bluesis above all a novel about family, secrets and the small falsehoods and sweeping deceptions that keep us together while they tear us apart. And memory is the sleeping dog in an unforgettable love story that makes us long to believe that even saudade can have a happy ending."