Dance of the Rain Synopsis Fiction novel based mainly within History of Cape Town's District Six. When Melissa September and Jamie-Lynne from impoverished District Six take up employment as housemaids for the influential McCurdy family in Cape Town, they do not expect the turbulent twists their young Coloured lives are about to take. During the height of the apartheid era in South Africa, Melissa falls in love with the family's son, Nicholas, and they soon engage in secret sexual encounters. Soon before long she falls pregnant but miscarries. Behind the facade of tremendous success the...