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Title: Crooked Heart
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Lissa Evans
Narrator: Karen Cass
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-22-16
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee.
When Noel Bostock - aged 10, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge - a 36-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....
Members Reviews:
Completely Satisfying in Every Way!
LOVED IT! I devoured it in two days. Fast for me. I literally laughed out loud at times and guffawed at others. It was a wonderful story. Heart warming, interesting, fun. It was totally different from any other WWII novel I've ever read. Fascinating details about how people adjusted to the trials going on around them while they lived their day-to-day lives. I've been referring it to everyone I know who likes to read.
An almost perfect book about delightfully imperfect people.
The best book I've read in ages. The characters hearts may be "crooked" but still they have plenty of heart. The story is set in England during WWII. The main characters are a middle-aged woman scraping by collecting for bogus charities, her adult son who gets by failing the physical for reluctant recruits, a dotty mother who spends her time writing long letters of advice to England's leaders, and a 10-year old evacuee wise beyond his years. Imperfect people surviving in difficult times with slightly askew, if not crooked, hearts.
Having just enjoyed Their Finest (also by the author) in the cinema
Having just enjoyed Their Finest (also by the author) in the cinema, I came here to find other books by her. This is a joy. The period detail is immensely satisfying, the plot becomes more compelling as the book goes on (many of its turns take full advantage of the WW2 setting), and the dialogue, crisply capturing both the argot of the era and the way people actually talk, is amongst the best I've ever read. Most of all, for me, this is a book about people, and what they become and what they do when ground down by events and circumstances - particularly poverty. Evans is very brave to present this face of people during a war which almost certainly created opportunities for those with innate spiv tendencies to thrive, but also forced people to do things they perhaps wouldn't normally do, purely so they could survive. At the start, you may not like the central characters, but as the book unfolds, you certainly understand them.
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Title: Crooked Heart
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Lissa Evans
Narrator: Karen Cass
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-22-16
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee.
When Noel Bostock - aged 10, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge - a 36-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....
Members Reviews:
Completely Satisfying in Every Way!
LOVED IT! I devoured it in two days. Fast for me. I literally laughed out loud at times and guffawed at others. It was a wonderful story. Heart warming, interesting, fun. It was totally different from any other WWII novel I've ever read. Fascinating details about how people adjusted to the trials going on around them while they lived their day-to-day lives. I've been referring it to everyone I know who likes to read.
An almost perfect book about delightfully imperfect people.
The best book I've read in ages. The characters hearts may be "crooked" but still they have plenty of heart. The story is set in England during WWII. The main characters are a middle-aged woman scraping by collecting for bogus charities, her adult son who gets by failing the physical for reluctant recruits, a dotty mother who spends her time writing long letters of advice to England's leaders, and a 10-year old evacuee wise beyond his years. Imperfect people surviving in difficult times with slightly askew, if not crooked, hearts.
Having just enjoyed Their Finest (also by the author) in the cinema
Having just enjoyed Their Finest (also by the author) in the cinema, I came here to find other books by her. This is a joy. The period detail is immensely satisfying, the plot becomes more compelling as the book goes on (many of its turns take full advantage of the WW2 setting), and the dialogue, crisply capturing both the argot of the era and the way people actually talk, is amongst the best I've ever read. Most of all, for me, this is a book about people, and what they become and what they do when ground down by events and circumstances - particularly poverty. Evans is very brave to present this face of people during a war which almost certainly created opportunities for those with innate spiv tendencies to thrive, but also forced people to do things they perhaps wouldn't normally do, purely so they could survive. At the start, you may not like the central characters, but as the book unfolds, you certainly understand them.