Crooked Heart

When Noel Bostock – aged ten, no family – is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he winds up in St Albans with Vera Sedge – thirty-six, drowning in debts. Always desperate for money, she’s unscrupulous about how she gets it. The war’s thrown up all manner of new opportunities but what Vee needs is a cool head and the ability to make a plan…

The acidly heartwarming tale of the relationship between a WWII orphan evacuee and his foster mother, set against the backdrop of the Blitz. Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015