Full name: The Mistress of Nothing: A Novel

Author: Kate Pullinger Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction, Romance Culture: Canada Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781441771575 1441771573

Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London. But when her debilitating tuberculosis means exile, she and her devoted lady's maid, Sally, set sail for Egypt. It is Sally who describes, with a mixture of wonder and trepidation, the odd menage marshalled by the resourceful Omar, which travels down the Nile to a new life in Luxor. When Lady Duff Gordon undoes her stays and takes to native dress, throwing herself into weekly salons; language lessons; excursions to the tombs; Sally too adapts to a new world, affording her heady and heartfelt freedoms never known before. But freedom is a luxury that a maid can ill-afford, and when Sally grasps more than her status entitles her to, she is brutally reminded that she is mistress of nothing. Similar books: The Stone of Light: Nefer the Silent by Christian Jacq The Tree of Life by Christian Jacq The Empire of Darkness by Christian Jacq The Wise Woman by Christian Jacq House of Dreams by Pauline Gedge Whispers in the Sand by Barbara Erskine The Visitors by Sally Beauman The Horus Road by Pauline Gedge The Hippopotamus Marsh by Pauline Gedge Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell Paneb the Ardent by Christian Jacq The Last English King by Julian Rathbone The House at Old Vine by Norah Lofts The Flame Bearer by Bernard Cornwell The Ptolemies by Duncan Sprott The Secret Wife by Gill Paul From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon Say Goodbye for Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde The Glassblower by Petra Durst-Benning City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert