The Twisted Heart
- 4 Mar 2010
- 9781847671554
- £7.99
- 288 pp
- 128×197mm
In a few words
A literary murder mystery and a tale of modern love from an Orange-longlisted author
A genuinely puzzling historical murder mystery linking Dickens to the gruesome murder of a prostitute . . . Fresh and clever and very funny.
Gowers's writing is absolutely beautiful.
More about
the book
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.
Really a contemporary love story, and a very good one too . . . This is fine writing . . . sharp, acute, comic and true to life.
Allan Massie
ScotsmanGowers is a genius.
Scarlett Thomas
Singularly convincing an genuinely moving . . . Twenty-first-century love is laid tenderly but unflinchingly bare in this ultimately strange and lingering novel.
A dark delight of a novel.
Tina Jackson
Metro
