Book description
With Your Crooked Heart
is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's sixth novel.
Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie . . .
Yet she doesn't get one man with this union - she gets two. Born
twelve years apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking, Paul and Johnnie
are close: they're good at making money and make taking power look
easy. But while Paul deals on contaminated land, Johnnie is adept at
dealing in crime.
And when Louise's relationship with the brothers is further
complicated by the birth of her daughter, Anna, it seems nothing can
ever break this triangle. Until Johnnie's self-destructive streak
begins to threaten them all . . .
'Rich, tense, tragic and almost unbearable reading' The Times
'Open a page at random and you're almost bound to find something
gorgeous' Independent
'One of this country's most accomplished literary talents'
Independent on Sunday
Helen Dunmore has published eleven novels with Penguin: Zennor in
Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright;
A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to
the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked
Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001
Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for
Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby; House of Orphan;
Counting the Stars and The Betrayal, which was
longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. She is also a poet,
children's novelist and short-story writer.
Helen Dunmore has published nine novels with Penguin:
Zennor in Darkness
, which won the McKitterick Prize;
Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter,
which won the Orange Prize;
Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy;
With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege,
which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and
for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002;
Mourning Ruby
and
House of Orphans.
She is also a poet, children s novelist and short-story writer.
