Crooked Heart: A Novel
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780062364845 (0062364847)
ASIN: 0062364847
Publish date: 2016-07-05
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
After reading Chris Offutt’s My Father, the Pornographer, I figured I needed a book with a less dysfunctional family. Because Lissa Evans’ novel, Crooked Heart, is about a boy and his foster mother running cons in World War II London, it was the obvious next choice. Noel Bostick lived with his godmo...
Crooked Heart is the story of Noel Bostock and Vee Sedge, a couple of misfits in England during World War II. Noel is a 10-year-old orphan boy, living with his eccentric godmother, Mattie, in her rambling old house near Hampstead Heath. Mattie was a suffragette in the '20s and has a disdain for anyt...
Hard to believe I could find a novel about the London Blitz and WWII both heartwarming and at times ironically humorous. But I did and much of this is due to the author and her wonderful characterizations. I quickly fell in love with ten year old Noel, a precocious boy of unknown origins who was bei...
Two lost souls find each other in England during World War II. Ten year old Noel Bostock was raised by his godmother, Mattie, an eclectic soul and a suffragette. Mattie raised Noel her way, Noel does not fear authority and has a way of thinking to challenge most adults. When Mattie’s dementia wor...
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans is a fantastic book. I had it in my mind that it was a crime novel, and although there is criminal activity the main thread throughout the novel is relationship building. Vee takes in an evacuee, Noel, at the onset of WW2. She is drowning in debt and is desperate for a b...
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