Dimensions
155 x 233 x 27mm
All Nan Prunty knows for fact is her name, her birth month - April 1806 - and that she was born in a dockyard town. Her mother's recollections of their life beyond that vary according to the amount of drink she's taken.
Nan's first clear memory is of the flagstone floor of her mother's alehouse in Portsmouth, which her mother had renamed 'The Duchess of Prunty' in honour of the title she claimed would have been hers had Lord Nelson lived. She saw him die at Trafalgar, she swore, and he was Nan's father.
Thus begins Nan's quest to know the truth. From the ageing seamen at the Greenwich Hospital to the battlefields of the Crimea, Nan discovers the world is full of people with a story about Nelson. Does one of them hold the key to hers?
