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The Great Lover (P.S. (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Great LoverIn her old age, Nell Golightly receives a strange letter. A Tahitian woman, claiming to be the daughter of the poet Rupert Brooke, writes to ask her to describe him. And to explain why all of England remembers him.
Full description- Publisher: HARPER PERENNIAL
- Published: 01 June 2010
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780061924361 ISBN 10: 0061924369
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Full description for The Great Lover
In 1909, sixteen-year-old Nell Golightly is a housemaid at a popular tea garden near Cambridge University, and Rupert Brooke, a new tenant, is already causing a stir with his boyish good looks and habit of swimming naked in nearby Byron's Pool. Despite her good sense, Nell seems to be falling under the radical young poet's spell, even though Brooke apparently adores no one but himself. Could he ever love a housemaid? Is he, in fact, capable of love at all? Jill Dawson's "The Great Lover" imaginatively and playfully gives new voice to Rupert Brooke through the poet's own words and through the remembrances of the spirited Nell. An extraordinary novel, it powerfully conveys the allure of charisma as it captures the mysterious and often perverse workings of the human heart.
