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Description for Tom Bedlam
Paperback. Good clear copy with some minor shelf wear
Growing up fatherless in Vauxhall in the 1860s and working in a porcelain factory, young Tom Bedlam doesn't have it easy. Yet he is a positive spirit, cunning in his pursuit of love and a steadfast friend. Everything changes when his perfidious father turns up, followed by the revelation that Tom had an older brother, who disappeared at birth. Tom's desire to find him and unite his family proves an elusive but compelling quest. Sent to a boarding school where he learns the power of the ambitious over the meek, Tom makes a Faustian pact that will haunt his adult ... Read more
Growing up fatherless in Vauxhall in the 1860s and working in a porcelain factory, young Tom Bedlam doesn't have it easy. Yet he is a positive spirit, cunning in his pursuit of love and a steadfast friend. Everything changes when his perfidious father turns up, followed by the revelation that Tom had an older brother, who disappeared at birth. Tom's desire to find him and unite his family proves an elusive but compelling quest. Sent to a boarding school where he learns the power of the ambitious over the meek, Tom makes a Faustian pact that will haunt his adult ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Sceptre
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340752074
SKU
KIN0031987
Shipping Time
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About George Hagen
George Hagen was born in 1958 in Harare, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). His family later moved to Northern Rhodesia, then to England before settling in New Jersey. He studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and spent several years in Los Angeles as a screenwriter. He lives in New York City with his wife and three ... Read more
Reviews for Tom Bedlam
'An imaginative exploration of self, loyalty and power'
Big Issue 'A globe-trotting history of the early 20th century ... TOM BEDLAM zaps along very engrossingly. You'd have to make a special effort not to warm to it.'
Daily Telegraph 'A terrific book and, for all its nutty improbabilities, in the end a bracingly sane one ... Read more
Big Issue 'A globe-trotting history of the early 20th century ... TOM BEDLAM zaps along very engrossingly. You'd have to make a special effort not to warm to it.'
Daily Telegraph 'A terrific book and, for all its nutty improbabilities, in the end a bracingly sane one ... Read more