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. 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. Timothy, Tiny Tim Cratchitthe crippled child who warmed old Scrooge’s heart in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843)has grown into a young. HarperCollins, 24.95 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-06-053421-9. 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. Remainder mark on bottom textblock edge.įrom the author of Courting Mr. Light cover wear, firm binding, very age-toned text.
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