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A major new biography that takes an unusual and illuminating approach to the great writerimmersing us in one year of his lifefrom the awardwinning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice
The year is 1851 Its a time of radical change in Britain when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest poverty and diseaseIt is also a turbulent year in the private life of Charles Dickens as he copes with a double bereavement and early signs that his marriage is falling apart But this formative year will become perhaps the greatest turning point in Dickenss career as he embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary peoples lives and develops a new form of writing that will reveal just how interconnected the world is becoming
The Turning Point transports us into the foggy streets of Dickenss London closely following the twists and turns of a year that would come to define him and forever alter Britains relationship with the world Brimming with fascinating details about the largerthanlife man who wrote Bleak House this is the closest look yet at one of the greatest literary personalities ever to have lived
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