by Dorothy Smith
with Mark Curry

Charles Dickens, one of the world's most famous writers, always remembered the 'very queer, small boy' he once had been. Mark goes to his house in London and his birthplace in Portsmouth, on the trail of the boy whose tragic childhood inspired him to write stories which would hold the nation spellbound. But the shadow of his early life that gave him his inspiration also denied him true happiness.

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