Crooked Heart Crooked Heart

Crooked Heart

A Novel

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Descripción editorial

“A wonderfully old-fashioned Dickensian novel . . . both darkly funny and deeply touching” from the bestselling author of Old Baggage (The New York Times Book Review).

When Noel Bostock—aged ten, no family—is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment during World War II, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge—a thirty-six-year old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she’s unscrupulous about how she gets it.

Noel’s mourning his godmother Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years, raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education, he has little in common with other children and even less with the impulsive Vee, who hurtles from one self-made crisis to the next. The war’s provided unprecedented opportunities for making money, but what Vee needs—and what she’s never had—is a cool head and the ability to make a plan.

On her own, she’s a disaster. With Noel, she’s a team.

Together, they cook up a scheme. Crisscrossing the bombed suburbs of London, Vee starts to make a profit and Noel begins to regain his interest in life. But there are plenty of other people making money out of the war—and some of them are dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn’t actually safe at all . . . 

“A dark comedy, moving between drollery, pathos, farce and harrowing moments of tragic insight.” —The Guardian

“At the crooked heart of this lovely novel is an odd-couple relationship reminiscent of Moses and Addie in the film Paper Moon.” —Nick Hornby, New York Times–bestselling author

GÉNERO
Ficción y literatura
PUBLICADO
2015
28 de julio
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
288
Páginas
EDITORIAL
HarperCollins
VENDEDOR
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
TAMAÑO
1.4
MB

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