Review: This was amazing. This was grim. All Dickens is grim. But amongst all the grimness of the Dickens, this rises above the rest. So it was amazingly grim. That works. A few parts took suspension of disbelief too far so I’ll take off a star, but this is truly a great novel. This book… Read more

Review: Originally published serially, this explains the extraordinary length and often disjointed narrative. An excellent book, you get plenty of humour, plus a lot of pathos, and you can see the start of the Dickensian commentary on the social conditions of the 19th century. Learned a lot, laughed a lot. This book made me want… Read more