EAN: 9781529919653

THE HERO OF THIS BOOK - ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN TAS...

'A sublime gift' MEG MASON    A taut  ground-breaking new novel about a writer's relationship
with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing.   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.   *
A New Yorker   Time   Washington Post   Oprah Daily and NPR Book of the Year *    '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

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