With Your Crooked Heart
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A Dickensian story of two brothers who come from nowhere and want everything. Paul and Johnnie are born twelve years apart, in a one-bedroom apartment. Their progress is rapid and devastating, and others are consumed by it.Paul marries Louise; Johnnie is part of the contract, while their daughter Anna is tangled in it from birth. Paul deals in property; seductive, self-destructive Johnnie deals in crime. When Johnnie has to flee the country, Louise goes with him. Because this has been her story too, right from the beginning, and she's going to tell it in all its crookedness, force and tenderness.
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About the Author
HELEN DUNMORE is a novelist, short story writer and poet. She has written twenty-two children's books, including Brother Brother, Sister Sister; The Lilac Tree; The Seal Cove; and the bestselling Ingo series. She has written nine adult books including A Spell of Winter, which won the 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her poetry collections have won the Poetry Society's Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Signal Poetry Award. Helen Dunmore was born in Yorkshire, England, and now lives in Bristol with her husband and children.
