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Before she turned the nineteenth century’s best heroine, before he'd created a word-of Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale moved along the Nile in the same amount of time in 1850. But where background might have those two numbers drift right by one another, the award winning author Enid Shomer provides them together to spark a separate companionship that changes both their destinies. Shomer, whose publishing The Brand New York Times has recognized as “beautifully cadenced, and astonishing in its inventive reach,” brings alive the opu­lent tapestry of mid-nineteenth-century Egypt whilst the unlikely soul mates get together to generally share their darkest torments and many fervent expectations.