Based on the real Lady Duff Gordon's journey to Egypt with her maid in the mid-19th century, Pullinger's novel brings a broiling desert landscape to life through the eyes of the working classes. Maid ...

Sally Naldrett is lady's maid to Lady Lucie Duff Gordon, who is suffering from tuberculosis. She gets one day off a month and usually spends it going to London to see Egyptian artifacts at the museum.

It’s a sad fact of American publishing that a literary award given in Canada is like a tree falling in the forest. Despite our shared language, our integrated economy and the world’s longest friendly ...