num_pages: 272
description: Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London. But when her debilitating tuberculosis means exile she and her devoted lady's maid Sally set sail for Egypt. It is Sally who describes with a mixture of wonder and trepidation the odd menage marshalled by the resourceful Omar which travels down the Nile to a new life in Luxor. When Lady Duff Gordon undoes her stays and takes to native dress throwing herself into weekly salons; language lessons; excursions to the tombs; Sally too adapts to a new world affording her heady and heartfelt freedoms never known before. But freedom is a luxury that a maid can ill-afford and when Sally grasps more than her status entitles her to she is brutally reminded that she is mistress of nothing.
language: English
title: The Mistress Of Nothing
publisher: McArthur & Co