![]() And Pullinger’s descriptive gifts are impressive. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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