# The Hero of this Book

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- Authors: [Elizabeth McCracken](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-mccracken)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2023-01-26

## Description

‘A sublime gift’ MEG MASON From the bestselling author, a taut, heartrending new novel about a writer’s relationship with her larger-than-life mother. Ten months after her mother’s death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city was a favourite of her mother’s, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself recalling all that made her complicated mother extraordinary. Even though the woman, a writer, wants to respect her mother’s nearly pathological sense of privacy, she must decide whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal. * A New Yorker , Time , Washington Post , Oprah Daily and NPR Book of the Year * ‘I absolutely loved it. A moving portrayal of daughterhood…suffused with warmth and love’ MEGAN HUNTER ‘Confirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life… wonderful’ GUARDIAN ‘Tender, funny, heartbreaking… a writer who always delights’ RUMAAN ALAM

## Editions

### The Hero of this Book

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-15-2991-965-3
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2023-11-02
- Language: en_GB

### The Hero of this Book

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2990-131-3
- Published: 2023-01-26
- Language: en_GB