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Francis Bacon's Nanny
La Nourrice de Francis Bacon
Maylis Besserie · 41 when first published
Novel · 264 pages · Historical
Translated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin
AI-generated summary:Jessie Lightfoot, the nanny from Cornwall who shielded the painter Francis Bacon from his tyrannical father in childhood and from his worst excesses in London, speaks of the boy she adored.