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Bleak House
By (Author) Charles Dickens
Illustrated by Karen Donnelly
Retold by Gill Tavner
Baker Street Press
Baker Street Press
12th November 2019
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
428.6
Hardback
64
Width 135mm, Height 204mm
200g
Age range 9 to 12
It would have been far better if you had never been born.
Esther, at fourteen, has never known love. Determined to live well, earn some love and overcome the shadow of her birth, she takes her first steps into an unknown world.
A family curse, a manipulating lawyer, poverty and secrets threaten to destroy Esther's world. Are the walls of Bleak House strong enough to protect her and her new friends from such powerful forces
The reader will be caught up in an unfolding mystery, full of surprises. Perhaps the biggest mystery of all is: Who is Nemo
Charles Dickens (1812 1870) is considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era and created many of the worlds most notable fictional characters, including Fagin, Mr Micawber and Miss Havisham.