The Duchess Of Nothing

The Duchess Of Nothing by Heather McGowan


ISBN
9780571228874
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Dimensions
140 x 220mm

A beautiful and compelling story about an unusual friendship born of mutual need.

After leaving her husband and their suffocating marriage for a new lover in Rome, the narrator of Heather McGowan's 'Duchess of Nothing' has her freedom, but is still trapped by the routine of life and haunted by her past. Even worse, her lover, Edmund, is just as self-absorbed and remote as her former husband. Her one source of entertainment is Edmund's seven year old brother, a curious, precocious and defiant child who becomes her responsibility during her lover's long absences. Spending their days together, they wander the city, simultaneously repelled by and drawn to each other as she tries to provide him with some kind of education. But when Edmund abandons them altogether, the amusing relationship between the narrator and her charge suddenly becomes a necessity, and she realises how much she has come to depend on the boy.

Clever, wry, emotionally vulnerable and acutely aware of her precarious grasp on the world around, the narrator of McGowan's novel speaks with a cutting honesty and a hilarious, twisted logic - with a voice that's unique and utterly compelling.
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