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The Hero of This Book

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'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

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781529919653
Publication date: 2nd November 2023
Author: Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher: Vintage an imprint of Random House
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 177 pages
Primary Genre Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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