by Louis Bayard
bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, published-2002, dickensphenalia, winter-20112012, victoriana Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Elizabeth Chadwick Read from December 17 to 20, 2011 NOT SO TINY ANY MORE, that's a fact.Bayard can write - he writes beautifully, and as such, this is not a book to be rushe...
The Mr. Timothy of the title is Tim Cratchit, Tiny Tim as an adult, with Uncle N as his sponsor, offering an income in return for a visit now and again. Tim is not very settled in the world, even though he has overcome his infirmity to a point where he has merely a limp from a shortened leg to remin...