Product Description
Crooked Heart
Author: Lissa Evans
Format: Paperback
‘My book of the year’ — Jojo Moyes
When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he winds up in St Albans with Vera Sedge - thiry-six, drowning in debts. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it.
The war's thrown up all manner of new opportunities but what Vee needs 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 an idea. 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 . . .
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2015
About the Author
Following a career in radio and TV comedy, Lissa Evans has gone on to write seven novels, including the bestselling Old Baggage, Their Finest Hour and a Half (filmed as Their Finest) and Small Bomb at Dimperley. Two of her books for children, Small Change for Stuart and Wed Wabbit, were shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her non-fiction book about producing Father Ted is called Picnic on Craggy Island.
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