The Mistress Of Nothing by Kate Pullinger

Yes, Sally’s healthy, and that, ultimately, gives her some power, but even taking that into account, things get a little too tidy. Sally’s first impressions of Alexandria put you right there.īut Pullinger lets fact get in the way of fiction. Mistress of Nothing The American debut of an award-winning novel about a ladys maids awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to. The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger - The American debut of an award-winning novel about a ladys maids awakening as she journeys from the confines. And Pullinger’s descriptive gifts are impressive. : The Mistress of Nothing: A Novel (9781439193860) by Pullinger, Kate and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The book, written in Sally’s voice, is a meditation on power, love and naïveté spiced with a large dose of culture clash, all intriguing themes. There, Sally falls in love with Omar, their Egyptian dragoman (translator and guide), with disastrous consequences for this fascinating triangle. It’s an absorbing story of love and power, beautifully written, but it sags at the end.īased on real characters, the novel tells the story of Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon, a passionate intellectual suffering from tuberculosis who moves to Egypt for her health in the early 1860s with her maid, Sally Naldrett.

Not that there’s anything wrong with The Mistress Of Nothing, this year’s English-language Governor General’s Award fiction winner. Kate Pullinger is the author of several novels and collections of short stories and collaborated with Jane Campion on the novelization of the film The Piano. /rebates/2f97814391938602fMistress-Nothing-Novel-Pullinger-Kate-143919386X2fplp&. Here’s the third 2009 major prizewinner to demonstrate the strange goings on among jury members. THE MISTRESS OF NOTHING by Kate Pullinger (McArthur), 250 pages, $24.95 paper.

The Mistress Of Nothing by Kate Pullinger