Crooked heart
Record details
- ISBN: 0062364839
- ISBN: 9780062364838
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Physical Description:
282 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Published in Great Britain in 2014 by Doubleday, an imprint of Random House"--Title page verso. |
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Genre: | History. Historical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. |
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Crooked Heart : A Novel
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Summary
Crooked Heart : A Novel
Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee. When Noel Bostock--aged ten, no family--is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge--a thirty-six-year old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it. Noel's mourning his godmother Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years, raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education, he has little in common with other children and even less with the impulsive Vee, who hurtles from one self-made crisis to the next. The war's provided unprecedented opportunities for making money, but what Vee needs--and what she's never had--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 a scheme. Crisscrossing the bombed suburbs of London, Vee starts to make a profit and Noel begins to regain his interest in life. 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. . . .