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An Honourable Man

by Gillian Slovo - £8.99  Virago Press Ltd (2013)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781844086658 | ISBN 10: 1844086658

From one of Britain’s most important writers, An Honourable Man is set in the tumultuous world of late Victorian England.
Beginning in the Sudan and London of 1884, this extraordinary new novel is played out against the shambolic end of the Empire. Slovo draws on the lives of two real men: Charles Gordon, an heroic, hubristic, career army man whose refusal to obey orders helped bring down the Gladstone government, and W T Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, the father of tabloid journalism. Their story is intercuts with the tale of a poor, working woman in London.
 
This is a book about destiny and about how wrong men can be; about foreign adventure and heroism doomed to failure; about women struggling to carve a place for themselves in the world; about political compromise and military mayhem. It is magnificent.

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