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The Great Lover (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Great LoverAn imaginative, fascinating novel about the poet Rupert Brooke from the Whitbread and Orange shortlisted author of FRED AND EDIE.
Full description- Publisher: Sceptre
- Published: 22 January 2009
- Format: Hardback 320 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780340935651 ISBN 10: 0340935650
- Sales rank: 522,053
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Full description for The Great Lover
Nell Golightly is living out her widowhood in Cambridgeshire when she receives a strange request: a Tahitian woman, claiming to be the daughter of the poet Rupert Brooke, writes to ask what he was like: how did he sound, what did he smell like, how did it feel to wrap your arms around him? So Nell turns her mind to 1909 when, as a seventeen-year-old housemaid, she first encountered the young poet. He was already causing a stir - not only with his poems and famed good looks, but also by his taboo-breaking behaviour and radical politics. Intrigued, she watched as Rupert skilfully managed his male and female admirers, all of whom seemed to be in love with him. Soon Nell realised that despite her good sense, she was falling for him too. But could he love a housemaid? Was he, in fact, capable of love at all? In a dazzling act of imagination, Jill Dawson gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a dual narrative that unfolds in both his own words and those of her spirited fictional character, Nell. A memorable tale of love in many guises, of heartbreak and loss, the novel brings Brooke vividly to life as it shows him to have been a far more interesting, complex and troubled figure than the romanticised version allows.
