When Kit goes to a dance class she is hoping simply to take her mind off her studies. Soon it looks like Joe, a stranger she meets there, might do more than that. But when Kit uncovers a mystery involving the young Charles Dickens and the slaughter of a prostitute known as The Countess, she is sucked back in to the world of books, and discovers how Dickens became tangled up with this horrendous crime.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781847671554
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 207 g
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 17 mm
Edition: Main
A genuinely puzzling historical murder mystery linking Dickens to the gruesome murder of a prostitute . . . Fresh and clever and very funny. - Guardian
Gowers's writing is absolutely beautiful. - The Times
Really a contemporary love story, and a very good one too . . . This is fine writing . . . sharp, acute, comic and true to life. - Allan Massie, Scotsman
Gowers is a genius. - Scarlett Thomas
Singularly convincing an genuinely moving . . . Twenty-first-century love is laid tenderly but unflinchingly bare in this ultimately strange and lingering novel. - Independent on Sunday
A dark delight of a novel. - Tina Jackson, Metro
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