Crooked heart : a novel / Lissa Evans.
Momo rauemi: TextSeries: Thorndike Press large print historical fictionEdition: Large Print editionWhakaahuatanga: 417 pages (large print) ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781410482570 (large print : hardback)
- 141048257X (large print : hardcover)
- 823/.92 23
- PR6105.V35 C76 2015
- FIC014000
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Large print | Stratford Large print | Large print | EVA (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea (Available) | A00783026 |
When Noel Bostock -- aged ten, no family -- is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge -- a thirty-six-year-old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it. Noel's mourning his godmother, Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years and raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education, he has little in common with other children, and even less with the impulsive Vee, who hurtles from one self-made crisis to the next. The war's provided unprecedented opportunities for making money, but what Vee needs and what she's never had is a cool head and the ability to make a plan. On her own, she's a disaster. With Noel, she's a team. Together they cook up a scheme. Crisscrossing the bombed suburbs of London, Vee starts to turn a profit and Noel begins to regain his interest in life. But there are plenty of other people making money off the war -- and some of them are dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn't actually safe at all.
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