This One Sky Day
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022
Published on 15. April 2021
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-0-571-35800-7 (ISBN)
Description
SHORLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS
LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS
'Dazzling' Cosmopolitan
'I deeply admire This One Sky Day - and also, not so secretly, bitterly envy it...' MARLON JAMES
'Gorgeous' Financial Times
'Haunting' Independent
'Wonderfully fearless' New Statesman
'Stunning' KEI MILLER
Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do:
A wedding feast to conjure and cook
An infidelity to investigate
A lost soul to set free
As the sun rises two star-crossed lovers try to find their way back to one another across this single day. When night falls, all have been given a gift, and many are no longer the same.
The sky is pink, and some wonder if it will ever be blue again.
What readers are saying
'Brimming with and life and love and just absolutely gorgeous writing. a one-of-a-kind novel.'
'I couldn't put it down and I will be recommending it to everyone.'
'A story luxuriously and confidently told, which is sumptuous from sentence to sentence. There is both literal and literary magic here.'
'This book is bursting at the seams with beauty! Magic! Love! Imagination! It is a burst of colour and flame.'
'It's hard to explain, but if you love getting lost in a story, this could be one for you.'
LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS
'Dazzling' Cosmopolitan
'I deeply admire This One Sky Day - and also, not so secretly, bitterly envy it...' MARLON JAMES
'Gorgeous' Financial Times
'Haunting' Independent
'Wonderfully fearless' New Statesman
'Stunning' KEI MILLER
Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do:
A wedding feast to conjure and cook
An infidelity to investigate
A lost soul to set free
As the sun rises two star-crossed lovers try to find their way back to one another across this single day. When night falls, all have been given a gift, and many are no longer the same.
The sky is pink, and some wonder if it will ever be blue again.
What readers are saying
'Brimming with and life and love and just absolutely gorgeous writing. a one-of-a-kind novel.'
'I couldn't put it down and I will be recommending it to everyone.'
'A story luxuriously and confidently told, which is sumptuous from sentence to sentence. There is both literal and literary magic here.'
'This book is bursting at the seams with beauty! Magic! Love! Imagination! It is a burst of colour and flame.'
'It's hard to explain, but if you love getting lost in a story, this could be one for you.'
More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
757 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-35800-7 (9780571358007)
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Person
Leone Ross was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her first novel, All the Blood Is Red, was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and her second novel, Orange Laughter, was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour Watershed Fiction favourite. Her short fiction has been widely anthologised and her first short-story collection, the 2017 Come Let Us Sing Anyway was nominated for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and the OCM BOCAS Prize. Ross has taught creative writing for twenty years, at University College Dublin, Cardiff University and Roehampton University in London. She is editor of the first black British anthology of speculative fiction, due out in 2022 with Peepal Tree Press. Prior to writing fiction, Ross worked as a journalist. Leone Ross lives in London but intends to retire near water.