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Crooked Heart, by Lissa Evans
After reading Chris Offutt’s My Father, the Pornographer, I figured I needed a book with a less dysfunctional family. Because Lissa Evans’ novel, Crooked Heart, is about a boy and his foster mother running cons in World War II London, it was the obvious next choice. Noel Bostick lived with his godmother for years, before her dementia lead to her death. His cousins would have taken him in, but they just didn’t suit. Noel is then evacuated to the suburbs, taken in by Vee Sedge who doesn’t mind doing a good deed when it comes with a subsidy and an extra ration book. Oddly enough, the arrangement is the start of a beautiful friendship...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.
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