Crooked Heart
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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 h...
Brought to you by Penguin.
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 h...
