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Synopsis
Blood is shown to be thicker than water in prize-winning author Helen Dunmore’s With Your Crooked Heart in which the close relationship between two brothers and their criminal activity threatens to destroy one’s marriage and his wife.
Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie. . .
Yet she doesn’t get one man with this union – she gets two. Born twelve years apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking. Paul and Johnnie are close: they’re good at making money and make taking power look easy. But while Paul deals on contaminated land, Johnnie is adept at dealing in crime.
And when Louise’s relationship with the brothers is further complicated by the birth of her daughter, Anna, it seems nothing can ever break this triangle. Until Johnnie’s self- destructive streak begins to threaten them all. . .
‘Rich, tense, tragic and almost unbearable reading’ Elizabeth Buchan, The Times
‘Open a page at random and you’re almost bound to find something gorgeous’ Independent
‘One of this country’s most accomplished literary talents’ Independent on Sunday
Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore has achieved great critical acclaim since publishing her first adult novel, the McKitterick Prize winning, Zennor in Darkness. Her novels, Counting the Stars, Your Blue Eyed Boy, Burning Bright, The Siege (Shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002), The Betrayal, A Spell of Winter, House of Orphans, Mourning Ruby and Talking to the Dead, and her collection of short stories Love of Fat Men are all published by Penguin. Helen also writes for children, her titles include The Deep and Ingo.
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780141033617
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 256
Published : 27 Mar 2008
Publisher : Fig Tree
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