The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

A major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times*BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BECOMING DICKENS AND THE STORY OF ALICE*'It is hard to imagine a better book on Dickens' NEW STATESMANThe year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industr...