![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately she must choose her master and a way back home-or a way to an unknown future. But freedom is a luxury that a lady's maid can ill afford, and when Sally's newfound passion for life causes her to forget what she is entitled to, she is brutally reminded she is mistress of nothing. As Sally gets farther and farther from home, she experiences freedoms she has never known-forgoing corsets and wearing native dress, learning Arabic, and having her first taste of romance. 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's maid, Sally, doesn't hesitate to leave the only world she has known in order to remain at her mistress's side. Book Synopsis The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady's maid's awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypt's Nile Valley. ![]()
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