Oliver Twist & Me

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE**"e;Idiosyncratic and entertaining,"e; Sunday Times"e;A fascinating family and social history,"e; Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time"e;A fascinating dual story,"e; Edel Coffey, The GlossWe all think we know the tale. As a child, Charles Dickens was forced to work in a mouldering Thames-side blacking factory, a...