Cape Fever

By Nadia Davids

Categories: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Cape Fever is a gothic psychological novel by South African writer Nadia Davids, published by Simon & Schuster in 2025 and set in 1920 in a small, unnamed city in a colonial empire. Soraya Matas takes a job as live-in maid to the widowed Mrs. Hattingh, whose decaying house near the Muslim Quarter is full of spirits. Believing Soraya cannot read, Mrs. Hattingh offers to write her letters to her fiancé Nour, and the weekly ritual binds the two women in a growing struggle.

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