Oliver Twist & Me
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Author_Nicholas Blincoe
biography
britain
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charles dickens
claire tomalin
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foundling
history
invisible woman
kent
literary biography
london
manchester
memoir
musical
nicholas blincoe
novelist
oliver
oliver twist
orphan
robert blincoe
workhouse
Product details
- ISBN 9780349136387
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 166 x 242mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE**"Idiosyncratic and entertaining," Sunday Times"A fascinating family and social history," Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time"A fascinating dual story," Edel Coffey, The GlossWe all think we know the tale. As a child, Charles Dickens was forced to work in a mouldering Thames-side blacking factory, an event that scarred him for life and inspired Oliver Twist. Except that's only part of the story. In reality, Dickens appropriated the stories of foundlings and orphans - including Robert Blincoe, whose memoir supplied the source material for his great novel of childhood. In Oliver Twist & Me, novelist Nicholas Blincoe presents a dual biography of Dickens and his great-great-great-grandfather Robert, showing how the story of an orphan took off in different directions, helping Dickens project himself as an inimitable literary one-off, just as Robert's memoir of a workhouse boy gave a voice to the masses.By playing off the lives of a working-class hero and a classic author, Oliver Twist & Me reveals Dickens - and his world - as they have never been seen before.
Nicholas Blincoe is the author of six novels, winning the CWA Silver Dagger for his crime novel, MANCHESTER SLINGBACK. His non-fiction books include include a deeply personal history of Bethlehem - his home for a decade - which won praise from figures as diverse as President Jimmy Carter and historian Peter Frankopan, with starred reviews in the New York Review of Books.
