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Crooked Heart

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Crooked Heart

By: Lissa Evans
Narrated by: Lucy Briers
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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 . . .

© Lissa Evans 2014 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction War
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Beautifully read. I enjoyed every minute! Thank you Lucy Briers for bringing such a great book to life so well.

Wonderful

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Set against the background of WW2 this is a lovely gentle story about two lost souls finding each other and what they need . Loved the characters ( especially Noel and Matty) and enjoyed the plot - 5 stars

Very engaging story with great characters -

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Whereas the prequal, Old Baggage, was a smash hit with me this book did not have the same impact. A good listen and brilliant performance, Historically relevant from the emotional and back-stories of WW2 citizens.

Second in this trilogy

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Thoroughly enjoyable! The second book in Lissa Evans’ trilogy. I’m so glad to have discovered her.

Lovely.

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The characters in this book are well observed. Loveable and flawed in equal measure. I found myself researching further into wartime scams.
Narration was perfect.
Perfect read,

I’ll listen to this over and over.

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