Full of detail and colour about everyday life in Dickenss London, and leaves you with a sense not only of how hard life was then, but how strange. Even if youve read Dickens and the contemporary historians of the poor, there is still more to marvel at here. Sebastian Faulks, Mail on Sunday Books of the Year

Binding: Paperback;544 pages; Publisher: Atlantic Books; Classification: HBJD1; Weight: 646 g; Dimensions: 194 x 125 x 42

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