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The Great Lover

By: Jill Dawson
Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson, William Rycroft
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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, soon Nell realised that despite her good sense, she was falling for him.

But could he love a housemaid? Was he capable of love at all?

©2009 Jill Dawson (P)2009 Isis Publishing Ltd 20th Century Biographical Fiction Classics Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Poetry Small Town & Rural United States War & Military Women's Fiction World Literature
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Reviews

A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.

"A compelling portrait of a failed love affair and of a damaged man." (Telegraph)
"Strong, satisfying and memorable." (Times, London)
"Clever, moving, sexy and with a mesmerising feel for the magical, optimistic but doomed time before the great war." (Daily Mail)
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