The Hero of This Book

Elizabeth McCracken

£9.99

A taut, ground-breaking new novel about a writer’s relationship with her larger-than-life mother – and about the very nature of writing.

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Fiction > General

ISBN: 9781529919653

Description

Ten months after her mother’s death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday.

The city was a favourite of her mother’s, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself recalling all that made her complicated mother extraordinary.

Even though the woman, a writer, wants to respect her mother’s nearly pathological sense of privacy, she must decide whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal.

I absolutely loved it. A moving portrayal of daughterhood, suffused with warmth and love’ – Megan Hunter, author of The Harpy

Confirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life, wonderful’ – Guardian

Tender, funny, heartbreaking – a writer who always delights’ – Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

A sublime gift’ – Meg Mason

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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm