When your life is a big open sky just waiting for you to let go and jump, and it feels like anything is possible. And it really is. And you really do jump. And for a time it feels like you’re flying, even as you fall.

It’s all about love. Crazy, heart-breaking, rest-of-your-life-defining love.

Sisters Mielie and Mare, in their early twenties in Cape Town in the mid-1990s, stand on the edge of everything they’ve dreamed of and also yet to imagine.

Mielie feels happier when there’s a script to follow. Mare’s making it up as she goes along. Both follow their hearts, in different directions, to different lives with different friends and lovers in different cities on different continents

Of course nothing goes as hoped or planned. But it’s their letters to each other, through all of it, that frame who they’re becoming and remind them who they are.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Daisy Jones – Journalist, author, poet and illustrator. She covered the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for The Star, was a senior Education writer for Business Day, and her first cookbook, Star Fish, won the Sunday Times and Radio 702 awards. She lives in Cape Town with her family.

Lucinda Hooley – Creative writer and content editor, working mostly in corporate marketing and communication. She’s also a Vita-award-winning theatre and television actress. She lives with her partner on a farm in the Free State.

Love You Madly is published by the Language Laundry