Description
| Product ID: | 9781509868216 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Mrs Gaskell and Me |
| Subtitle: | Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart |
| Authors: | Author: Nell Stevens |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Biography: writers, Biography: literary, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From the author of the beloved Bleaker House, Mrs Gaskell and Me is the story of two very modern women and their two love affairs, separated by a hundred and fifty years. <p><b>Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award</b><br><b><br>'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming – a delicious celebration of love and life' – Rebecca Stott, author of <i>In the Days of Rain</i></b><br><br>In 1857, Elizabeth Gaskell set sail for Rome, a city that would prove to be a place of inspiration and love: she would make enduring friendships, and meet a man – Charles Norton – who would become the love of her life.<br><br>In 2013, Nell Stevens is writing about Mrs Gaskell in Rome, and falling drastically in love with a man who lives in another city altogether. As Nell chases her heart around the world, and as Mrs Gaskell forms the greatest connection of her life, these two women, though centuries apart, are drawn together, and for Nell, Mrs Gaskell becomes more than a figure from the past. Here is a confidante, a friend, a woman who – living outside the conventions of her time – might have some wisdom to offer Nell.<br><br><b><i>Mrs Gaskell and Me</i> is about unrequited love and the romance of friendship, it is about forming a way of life outside the conventions of your time, and it offers Nell the opportunity – even as her own relationship falls apart – to give Mrs Gaskell the ending she deserved.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-06-27 |