Lucky Bunny
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- €3.99
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- €3.99
Publisher Description
Crime's a man's business. So they say. Who was that small figure then, slender enough to trot along the moonlit track, swift and low, virtually invisible? Who was it that covered the green signal with a glove to stop the train, while the two others took care of the driver and his mate? Could it have been one Queenie Dove, survivor of the Depression and the Blitz, not to mention any number of scrapes with the law?
Queenie Dove is a self-proclaimed genius when it comes to thieving and escape. Daring, clever and sexy, she ducked and dived through the streets of London from the East End through Soho to Mayfair, graduating from childhood shop-lifting to more glamorous crimes in the post-war decades. So was she wicked through and through, or more sinned against than sinning? Here she tells a vivacious tale of trickery and adventure, but one with more pain and heartbreak than its heroine cares to admit. Yes, luck often favoured her, but that is only part of the story.
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Dawson's engaging seventh novel (after Trick of the Light) chronicles the exploits of "Queenie" Dove, a highly intelligent Depression-era child from a family of grifters. As a child in London, Queenie acknowledges her fledgling conscience, but muses, "The world is full of milk on doorsteps. And bread left by the baker's vans, and coal from the coal man." The girl's education begins in earnest at age 12 after a group of established female crooks, who knew Queenie's mum, introduce her to crafty means of attaining what she can't afford. After a short time thieving, during which she changes schools and makes a new friend, she surpasses her felonious teachers, though not without suffering some consequences along the way. But when Queenie discovers that she's pregnant, she begins to examine the life she's built with her violent, criminal boyfriend. Still, the lure of the ruse calls to Queenie even as she imagines the future she will provide for her child. Dawson shows great skill in rendering a fully realized, winning character in this story of a young woman determined to recreate herself after a heartbreaking childhood.
