The Housekeeper and the Professor: ‘a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow’ Publishers WeeklyHe is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The Professor may not remember what he had for

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survival means protecting his family by any means necessary

iron 800 shirts a day to keep her summer job in the local factory

Or she nags him or foils him plays the uptight straight man to his charming loser

The full list of contributors is:Leila Aboulela

perched atop a mountain range

God-fearing physician who lives to help others

passion and hope to our lives' Lena Dunham

who grants devotees mental peace

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and garnered several awards and much acclaim

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