Borders Book Group

After leaving her husband and their suffocating marriage for a new lover in Rome, the narrator of Heather McGowan's "Duchess of Nothing" has her freedom, but is still trapped by the routine of life and haunted by her past. Clever, wry, emotionally vulnerable and acutely aware of her our precarious grasp on the world, the narrator speaks with a cutting honesty and a hilarious twisted logic with a voice that's unique and utterly compelling.