Crooked Heart

‘My book of the year’ Jojo Moyes

by Lissa Evans

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Pub Date Dec 31 2015 | Archive Date Oct 24 2016

Random House UK, Transworld Publishers | Black Swan

General Fiction (Adult)

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Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2015.

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.

When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he winds up in St Albans with Vera Sedge -...

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Lissa Evans is the author of three previous novels including Spencer’s List (shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize) and Their Finest Hour and a Half (longlisted for the Orange Prize). Her first book for children, Small Change for Stuart, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Costa Book Awards.