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She dropped out of mcgill university, montreal, after a year and a half and subsequently worked for a year in a copper mine in the yukon. Browse kate pullinger s bestselling audiobooks and newest titles. Early in kate pullinger s new novel, the mistress of nothing, protagonist sally naldrett is asked by a fellow servant why she spends her one day off a month in the egyptian galleries of the. The mistress of nothing, a fictionalized tale of sally naldrett, ladys maid to lady duff gordon, who traveled with her mistress to egypt in.
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