A sublime gift MEG MASONA taut, groundbreaking new novel about a writers relationship with her largerthanlife mother and about the very nature of writing.Ten months after her mothers death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city was a favourite of her mothers, 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 mothers 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 HarpyConfirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life... wonderful GUARDIANTender, funny, heartbreaking... a writer who always delights RUMAAN ALAM, author of Leave the World Behind

Binding: Paperback;128 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 260 g; Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 16

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