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Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens
Gaynor Arnold. Crown, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-307-46226-8
Longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Arnold's accomplished debut is a fictionalized take on the tumultuous marriage of Charles and Catherine Dickens. On the day of famed writer Alfred Gibson's public funeral, his estranged widow, Dorothea (Dodo), sits alone in her small London apartment, reminiscing about "the One and Only." Although caring deeply about his public image as a family man, Alfred's actual relationship with his brood is fraught by his egomaniacal demands …