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"The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady&#8217;s maid&#8217;s awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypt&#8217;s Nile Valley When Lady Duff Gordon, paragon of London society, departs for the hot, dry climate of Egypt to seek relief from her debilitating tuberculosis, her lady&#8217;s maid, Sally, doesn&#8217;t hesitate to leave the only world she has known in order to remain at her mistress&#8217;s side. As Sally gets farther and farther from home, she experiences freedoms she has never known&#8212;forgoing corsets and wearing native dress, learning Arabic, and having her first taste of romance. But freedom is a luxury that a lady&#8217;s maid can ill afford, and when Sally&#8217;s newfound passion for life causes her to forget what she is entitled to, she is brutally reminded she is mistress of nothing. Ultimately she must choose her master and a way back home&#8212;or a way to an unknown future. Based on the real lives of Lady Duff Gordon and her maid, The Mistress of Nothing is a lush, erotic, and compelling story about the power of race, class, and love"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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