Scent of Soil

Nomvula Dube can read the language of scent. After her mother's death she vows to bottle memory itself. An apprenticeship on a remote Magaliesberg estate brings her into the unfinished work of a dead perfumer—and the orbit of her enigmatic husband. As grief, desire and the smell of rain-soaked earth collide, Nomvula must decide what it means to stay alive. �the_scent_of_soil_revised.docx None