With Your Crooked Heart – Helen Dunmore

With Your Crooked Heart - Helen Dunmore
With Your Crooked Heart – Helen Dunmore

Brothers Paul and Johnnie, each making their own way from working class to wealth, both love Louise, who we first meet one long hot summer when she is pregnant with daughter Anna.

There follows a series of shifts in time and place, from London where we see Louise’s life before motherhood and on into the alcohol infused decade that follows Anna’s birth, to Yorkshire having lost Anna and Paul to Paul’s new wife, Sonia and a new life in the country.

The pace then changes as we watch three stories unfold: Anna and David, Louise and Johnnie, Paul and Sonia.

Beautiful writing, all the more so knowing there will be no more from Helen Dunmore.

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