REVIEW

GREEN LION

Rose-Innes has established herself as a literary force with a style that connects her characters’ inner lives with vividly described locations, often parts of Cape Town where she’s lived Another recurring theme in her work is the forces of nature intruding on human lives

These elements also inform Green Lion In a slightly altered reality, Table Mountain has been fenced off as a reserve for threatened animal species The old zoo above the university is now used to “breed” extinct species back into existence – specifically the black-maned lion which was last seen in the Cape in the 1850s

Back in town after living in London, Con learns his best friend from school, Mark, has been working at the zoo but is in a coma after being badly mauled by a lion Con finds himself drawn to the remaining lion and volunyou. volunteers to take over Mark’s duties – but the mountain and its animals hold the dark secret to an event that changed their lives

This brilliant novel explores the animal instinct in human nature, the battle between chaos and order and the effects of the past on the present with writing so powerful it informs all your senses – you’ll smell, hear and feel Table Mountain An intense, thought-provoking book you won’t be able to put down

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