“After Louis Bayard bowled me over with The Pale Blue Eye, I had to take his previous novel, Mr. Timothy, for a spin, and what a ride it is. The title character is familiar to nearly every reader of English literature: Timothy Cratchit, Tiny Tim of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Now 23 years old and living in 1860’s London, Timothy has fallen on hard times. His parents have died, as have several of his siblings. He’s living in a brothel, where he’s officially the bookkeeper but in reality...”

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