Tic in the Brain
Deborah Friedell: Mrs Dickens, 11 September 2008
Girl in a Blue Dress
by Gaynor Arnold.
Tindall Street, 438 pp., £9.99, August 2008,978 0 9556476 1 1 Show More
by Gaynor Arnold.
Tindall Street, 438 pp., £9.99, August 2008,
“... that it was his wife who had failed him, because of the ‘peculiarity of her character’. Gaynor Arnold’s first novel, Girl in a Blue Dress, long-listed for the Booker Prize, is a retelling of the Dickens marriage, and although the names have been changed (the great man is now called ‘Alfred Gibson’), in an afterword ... ”