With Your Crooked Heart

Author: Helen Dunmore

With Your Crooked Heart is bestselling author Helen Dunmore’s sixth novel. Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie . . . Yet she doesn’t get one man with this union – she gets two. Born twelve years apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking, Paul and Johnnie are close: they’re good at making money and make taking power look easy. But while Paul deals on contaminated land, Joh….Read More

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