- Published: 28 November 2019
- ISBN: 9780552774789
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $19.99
Crooked Heart
'My book of the year' Jojo Moyes
- Published: 28 November 2019
- ISBN: 9780552774789
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $19.99
Prepare to be charmed, amused and moved . . . A complete delight
January Book Club Pick, Mail on Sunday
Dazzling...a miniature masterpiece of serio-comic writing...A dark comedy, moving between drollery, pathos, farce and harrowing moments of tragic insight
Guardian
I loved this book - Lissa Evans is a wonderful writer; Vee and Noel are utter originals, and their journey made me laugh and cry
JoJo Moyes
Wonderfully vivid and eccentric...there's a good dash of sharp comedy to offset the heart-warming stuff
Kate Saunders, The Times
A fabulous novel about the relationship between ten-year-old Noel and his unscrupulous but endearing foster mother, Vee Sedge
January Book Club Pick, Woman & Home
Lissa Evans writes with tremendous wit as well as sensitivity, creating memorable characters with hearts of gold
Daily Express
Unmissable...Why is Lissa Evans not one of our best-known and best-loved authors?...The great joy of Lissa Evans’s writing lies in her spirited, quirky characters and, as befits a former producer of Father Ted and director of Have I Got News For You, a devilish wit
Sunday Express
At Christmas you need a book that's going to make you want to curl up in an armchair while it's raining outside and that book is Crooked Heart. It is funny and warm and so insightful and moving. An instant classic
India Knight, Sainsburys Magazine
Evans has a delightful tone, airy and bouncy, but with a perceptive irony and a spattering of caustic details. It recalls carefully constructed, deceptively light comic novels by the likes of Stella Gibbons and Nancy Mitford...And while the horror of war is tilted at, it's also often a source of laughter in the dark. It's a refreshingly crisp approach that allows moments of genuine pathos to be all the more resonant
Holly Williams, Independent on Sunday
A wonderfully Dickensian novel with satisfying plot twists that invoke the flavour (and scams) of wartime London . . . Evans has created a story both darkly funny and deeply touching, it’s a crooked journey straight to the heart
Judith Newman, New York Times Book Review
A gloriously atmospheric tale of life on the home front among spivs and charlatans
Cathy Renzenbrink, Prima
A joy from start to finish: briskly paced, taut and snappy with humor and, ultimately, sweet
Katherine Powers, Minneapolis Herald Tribune
Prepare to be charmed, amused and moved . . . A complete delight
January Book Club Pick, Mail on Sunday
Dazzling...a miniature masterpiece of serio-comic writing...A dark comedy, moving between drollery, pathos, farce and harrowing moments of tragic insight
Guardian
I loved this book - Lissa Evans is a wonderful writer; Vee and Noel are utter originals, and their journey made me laugh and cry
JoJo Moyes
Wonderfully vivid and eccentric...there's a good dash of sharp comedy to offset the heart-warming stuff
Kate Saunders, The Times
A fabulous novel about the relationship between ten-year-old Noel and his unscrupulous but endearing foster mother, Vee Sedge
January Book Club Pick, Woman & Home
Lissa Evans writes with tremendous wit as well as sensitivity, creating memorable characters with hearts of gold
Daily Express
Unmissable...Why is Lissa Evans not one of our best-known and best-loved authors?...The great joy of Lissa Evans’s writing lies in her spirited, quirky characters and, as befits a former producer of Father Ted and director of Have I Got News For You, a devilish wit
Sunday Express
At Christmas you need a book that's going to make you want to curl up in an armchair while it's raining outside and that book is Crooked Heart. It is funny and warm and so insightful and moving. An instant classic
India Knight, Sainsburys Magazine
Evans has a delightful tone, airy and bouncy, but with a perceptive irony and a spattering of caustic details. It recalls carefully constructed, deceptively light comic novels by the likes of Stella Gibbons and Nancy Mitford...And while the horror of war is tilted at, it's also often a source of laughter in the dark. It's a refreshingly crisp approach that allows moments of genuine pathos to be all the more resonant
Holly Williams, Independent on Sunday
A wonderfully Dickensian novel with satisfying plot twists that invoke the flavour (and scams) of wartime London . . . Evans has created a story both darkly funny and deeply touching, it’s a crooked journey straight to the heart
Judith Newman, New York Times Book Review
A gloriously atmospheric tale of life on the home front among spivs and charlatans
Cathy Renzenbrink, Prima
A joy from start to finish: briskly paced, taut and snappy with humor and, ultimately, sweet
Katherine Powers, Minneapolis Herald Tribune
The best novel I have read in the last five years... I couldn’t love it more
India Knight
Evans, who wrote the equally winning Their Finest Hour and a Half, also set during the war, is carving out a distinctive niche for herself… credible, touching, and funny.
Nick Hornby
As sparky and funny as Cold Comfort Farm and as charming and touching as The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, but then every now and again comes the vertiginous feeling of peering into something unutterably, dangerously sad. Everybody, and I mean everybody, is getting this for Christmas.
Louisa Young
Quite wonderful - beautifully written, so authentic too, and evocative of the wartime spirit, moving, funny - just perfect. I don’t usually like novels about the war - the true stories are so good - but this one - and Evelyn Waugh - are way up in a class of their own - superb
Juliet Gardiner