Crooked Heart

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