'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
| 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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