{"product_id":"crooked-heart-a-novel-9780062364838","title":"Crooked Heart: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee.When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge - a thirty-six-year old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she’s unscrupulous about how she gets it.Noel’s mourning his godmother Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years, raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education, he has little in common with other children and even less with the impulsive Vee, who hurtles from one self-made crisis to the next. The war’s provided unprecedented opportunities for making money, but what Vee needs - and what she’s never had - is a cool head and the ability to make a plan.On her own, she’s a disaster. With Noel, she’s a team.Together, they cook up a scheme. Crisscrossing the bombed suburbs of London, Vee starts to make a profit and Noel begins to regain his interest in life. But there are plenty of other people making money out of the war - and some of them are dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn’t actually safe at all. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42977804550310,"sku":"9780062364838","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/crooked-heart-a-novel-9780062364838-28454712049842.jpg?v=1656104271","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/crooked-heart-a-novel-9780062364838","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}