Comedian and author Russell Kane presents Open Book
Comedian and author Russell Kane talks to Enid Shomer about her novel The Twelve Rooms of the Nile in which she fictionalises a meeting between the sex obsessed young French writer Gustave Flaubert and the naive 29 year old Florence Nightingale. Both historically in Egypt at the same time, Flaubert was despondent from the bad reception an unpublished novel received, while Nightingale was trying to find a role for herself, away from the constraints of her class and her parents who didn't believe nursing was a suitable occupation for their daughter. Seven years later they would both be famous - she as the lady with the lamp at the Crimea and he for his controversial modern novel Madame Bovary.
Hear the full interview and read the first chapter of The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by clicking here.
Hear the full interview and read the first chapter of The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by clicking here.