Vigorous, well imagined and thoroughly entertaining, Louis Bayard can write up a storm * Literary Review * With its linguistic razzle-dazzle, Mr Timothy is a mock-Victorian tour de force - a shilling shocker that touches the heart and makes it race * Wall Street Journal *
one truly engaging book * Entertainment Weekly * One of the coolest books of the year * James Frey *įabulous. soaring language, memorable characters, splendidly atmospheric settings * People magazine *īayard packs his novel with detail, grotesques and plenty of fog and hansom cabs.
TIMOTHY proves once again that John Murray's new fiction it can do no wrong * The Bookseller *ĭazzling. Louis Bayard can write up a storm * Literary Review *Ī darkly enchanting historical thriller * *Ī vividly imagined historical thriller * Elle * Vigorous, well imagined and thoroughly entertaining. The sight of their horror-struck faces compels Timothy to become the protector of another young girl, Philomela, from the fate the others suffered at the hands of a dangerous and powerful man.With a cast of unforgettable characters and a compelling plot. Timothy's life takes a sharp turn when he discovers the bodies of two dead girls, each seared with the same cruel brand on the upper arm. He boards at a brothel in exchange for teaching the mistress how to read and spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures in their pockets. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father.
Lincoln comes a different kind of Christmas story featuring a grown up Tiny Tim, this breathless flight through the teeming markets, shadowy passageways, and rolling brown fog of 1860s London would do Dickens proud for its surprising twists and turns, and its extraordinary heart.
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