Mandela's 'honorary granddaughter' Zelda la Grange to publish memoir

Penguin to publish her own account of how the one-time apartheid-supporting Afrikaner had 'her life and everything she once believed in transformed by the greatest man of her time'

Zelda la Grange, Nelson Mandela's private secretary and "honorary granddaughter", is to publish a memoir of how she "had her life and everything she once believed in transformed by the greatest man of her time".

The book, Good Morning, Mr Mandela, has just been acquired by Penguin and will be published around the world on 19 June. It's a hot property at this week's London Book Fair, where international rights are selling fast agent Jonny Geller accepted an offer from France this weekend. It will tell the story of la Grange's life, from how she grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation, to how, a few years after the end of apartheid, she would become Mandela's assistant.

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