Crooked heart : a novel

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Label

Crooked heart : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Lissa Evans

Creator

• Evans, Lissa

Subject

• Historical fiction
• Orphans -- Fiction
• Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction
• Widows -- Fiction
• Black humor
• World War, 1939-1945 -- England | London -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Black humor

Language

eng

Summary

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 and 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 turn a profit and Noel begins to regain his interest in life. But there are plenty of other people making money off the war--and some of them are dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn't actually safe at all..

Cataloging source

CaOAUW

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult