The Turning Point

1851 – A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World

New Hardback Illustrated

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The acclaimed Dickens biographer Robert Douglas-Fairhurst zooms in on one year in his subject’s life. As the Great Exhibition opens in Hyde Park the 39-year-old novelist is grieving the deaths of his father and young daughter Dora, and his marriage is in jeopardy. By December his private turmoil and the social upheaval he witnesses will inspire a new phase in his writing, the first of his ‘dark’, state-of-the-nation novels, Bleak House.

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