Mrs DickensSELECTED FOR THE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB 'Mrs Dickens has my whole heart . . . I was enthralled' Jennie Godfrey London, 1835. Nineteen year old Kate Hogarth falls in love with the young journalist Charles Dickens. In the early days of their marriage, Charles is infatuated with his bride and Kate delights in her new life, the balm to her husband's irrepressible spirit. But as he finds fame as a novelist and the family rise through the ranks of Victorian

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His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television

What happened to his wife who abandoned them all those years ago

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