Kate Pullinger
The Mistress of Nothing
Fiction English-Language
Kate Pullinger,
London (UK),
The Mistress of Nothing.
(McArthur & Company;
distributed by the publisher)
(ISBN 978-1-55278-798-4)
Biography
Kate Pullinger is the author of five novels and two collections of short stories, including the novel of the film, The Piano, which she co-wrote with director Jane Campion. Recently, she has earned renown for her digital fiction, notably Inanimate Alice (2006), a digital graphic novel, and Flight Paths, a networked novel in progress that draws on contributions on and through the Internet. She is currently teaching an online MA in creative writing and new media at DeMontfort University, Leicester, and has been a writer-in-residence at several institutions, including two British prisons. Kate Pullinger was born in Cranbrook, B.C. and has been living in London, England since 1982.
Jury's comment
In The Mistress of Nothing, Kate Pullinger creates the fascinating character of Sally, maid to Lady Duff Gordon in Victorian times. Over the course of a memorable journey down the Nile with her Lady, Sally comes to realizations about the nature of power – its seductiveness, its elusiveness and its ability to alter the soul in manifold ways.