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The Twisted Heart

The Twisted Heart

by RebeccaGowers (Author)

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    Hardcover 2009

    $3.25

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    Paperback 2010

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    Paperback 2010

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Synopsis

When Kit goes to a dance class she is hoping simply to take her mind off her studies. Soon it looks like Joe, a stranger she meets there, might do more than that. But when Kit uncovers a mystery involving the young Charles Dickens and the slaughter of a prostitute known as The Countess, she is sucked back in to the world of books, and discovers how Dickens became tangled up with this horrendous crime.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 16 Apr 2009
ISBN 10: 1847671543
ISBN 13: 9781847671547

Media Reviews
A literary jeu d'esprit in the style of Scarlett Thomas's The End of Mr Y . . . skittish, stream-of-consciousness prose, ultra-realistic dialogue and a genuinely puzzling historical murder mystery. Fresh and clever and very funny. -- Joe O'Connell * * Guardian * *
Gowers's writing is absolutely beautiful. * * The Times * *
Funny, tragic and inspiring. * * Daily Telegraph (on When to Walk) * *
Gowers is a genius. -- Scarlett Thomas
Witty, spiky, clever and psychologically acute. * * Independent on Sunday (on When to Walk) * *
The Twisted Heart is really a contemporary love story, and a very good one too . . . This is fine writing . . . [Gowers] is very good indeed on the little things that bring a fiction to life and make it ring true . . . Her novel is sharp, acute, comic and true to life; admirable and enjoyable. -- Allan Massie * * Scotsman * *
An enjoyable and gripping read. -- Jude Piesse * * Mslexia * *
An intriguing literary thriller. * * Easy Living * *
Rebecca Gowers is a dab hand at creating finely drawn characters so full of unease that their uncomfortable relationship with their surroundings manifests itself in physical symptoms . . . Gowers's deft, precise touch and ability to generate a sense of discomfiting ambiguity turn the linked stories into a dark delight of a novel. -- Tina Jackson * * Metro * *
Gowers is a very original author, and unravels this modern romance in cleverly non-linear style. -- Malcolm Jack * * List * *
A sweet and tender love story between an unlikely pair . . . At heart, it seems quaintly old-fashioned - but none the worse for that. * * Source * *
Author Bio
Rebecca Gowers is the author of The Swamp of Death (Hamish Hamilton), the true story of a fatal showdown between a late Victorian conman and a corrupt detective, shortlisted for the 2004 CWA non-fiction Golden Dagger Award, and of a debut novel, When to Walk (Canongate), longlisted for the Orange Prize, 2007.