(Wala, he explains, means 'nothing' in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for 'nothing.') He is an expert on nothing. The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. Surprising, sexy, and hilarious, Good Girl is a thoughtful and endearing portrait of a young woman unsure of what she’s supposed to want from a world where the rules keep changing. How to be true to herself, as chaotic as she believes herself to be how to be good to those around her how to survive as a young woman in the still messy media culture of 2015. When she discovers a teen magazine from the 1970s, it sparks her imagination and her life finally seems to come into focus but as she learns more about how women were treated behind the scenes, she has to decide what to do. She was always a good student, tries to be a good friend, a good citizen, a good feminist, and now she wants a lover who will give her a good beating, preferably after tying her up.ĭating swings from the sublime to the humiliating, but then Lucy hooks up with someone who challenges her to pursue the writing career she has been letting idle.

Good Girl - Anna Fitzpatrick Anna Fitzpatrick The only hope is that the Marquis can rescue her in time to save her life and their love! Show book It is only back at his estate preparing with Sedela for a lavish party for his family and friends that he begins to realise what his heart truly desires and it is Sedela.īut it seems that it is too late, for she has been kidnapped and faces death at the forked tongue of a deadly cobra. To his fury the Marquis soon discovers that the ‘ghost’ spoke the truth when he catches Esther in bed with his friend. Informed of this by her Nanny, Sedela dresses up as the Windles’s family ghost, Lady Constance, who appears as a warning whenever the family is in danger.Įntering the Marquis’s bedroom at midnight through a secret passage she warns him that he is in grave peril from a woman who is unfaithful to him with a man he trusts as his friend. He, however, lingers on in London with his beautiful lover Lady Esther Hasting, an exquisite yet unscrupulous woman who is unfaithful to him while striving to ensnare him into marriage for his riches and his celebrated title.

The lovely young orphan Sedela Craven is very excited to hear that the Marquis of Windlesham is returning home from active service in the Duke of Wellington’s Army in France at the end of the long war against Napoleon Bonaparte.

Truly, Madly, Deeply by Faraaz Kazi