- Imprint: Vintage
- ISBN: 9781529919653
- Length: 192 pages
- Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 130mm
- Weight: 141g
- Price: £9.99
The Hero of this Book
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‘A sublime gift’ MEG MASON
From the bestselling author, a taut, heartrending new novel about a writer’s relationship with her larger-than-life mother.
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
‘Confirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life… wonderful’
GUARDIAN
‘Tender, funny, heartbreaking… a writer who always delights’
RUMAAN ALAM
From the bestselling author, a taut, heartrending new novel about a writer’s relationship with her larger-than-life mother.
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
‘Confirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life… wonderful’
GUARDIAN
‘Tender, funny, heartbreaking… a writer who always delights’
RUMAAN ALAM
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