The great lover

Jill Dawson

Original title: Great Lover

earliest edition we have, 2009 ISIS, 2009 381 pages

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 caus...

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Great Lover edition · 2009 · Hodder & Stoughton · 336 pages · 9780340935668
The great lover edition · 2009 · ISIS · 381 pages · 9780753183403
Great Lover edition · 2009 · Hodder & Stoughton · 300 pages · 9781848941434

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