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  • Mrs Gaskell & Me

  • By: Nell Stevens
  • Narrated by: Nell Stevens
  • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Mrs Gaskell & Me

By: Nell Stevens
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Publisher's summary

Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award

'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' Rebecca Stott, author of In the Days of Rain


In 1857, after two years of writing The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell fled England for Rome on the eve of publication. The project had become so fraught with criticism, with different truths and different lies, that Mrs Gaskell couldn’t stand it any more. She threw her book out into the world and disappeared to Italy with her two eldest daughters. In Rome she found excitement, inspiration, and love: a group of artists and writers who would become lifelong friends, and a man – Charles Norton – who would become the love of Mrs Gaskell’s life, though they would never be together.

In 2013, Nell Stevens is embarking on her Ph.D. – about the community of artists and writers living in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century – and falling drastically in love with a man who lives in another city. As Nell chases her heart around the world, and as Mrs Gaskell forms the greatest connection of her life, these two women, though centuries apart, are drawn together.

Mrs Gaskell and Me is about unrequited love and the romance of friendship, it is about forming a way of life outside the conventions of your time, and it offers Nell the opportunity – even as her own relationship falls apart – to give Mrs Gaskell the ending she deserved.

©2018 Nell Stevens (P)2018 Macmillan Digital Audio
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Critic reviews

A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life (Rebecca Stott, author of In the Days of Rain)
A truly lovely book - acutely observed and honest and melancholy (Jessie Greengrass, author of Sight)
A tender, clever, sublimely crafted book that celebrates the struggles and triumphs of writing, love, and the desire for connection (Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars)

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Book starts very well, gets you involved and enthusiastic with the two main characters .
Second half total let down ... specially the erä about Max breakdown and the PhD studies. Often irritably “childish” kind of filler writing.
Story picks up great towards the end though and it was a brilliant finish to write so many different endings!
Audiobook voice presentation excellent.
Often times could relate with the characters and do not regret I read this book.

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