- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Michael Joseph (29 May 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0718153731
- ISBN-13: 978-0718153731
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 470,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A master storyteller (Daily Telegraph )
Andrew Taylor is the most interesting novelist writing on crime in England today (Spectator )
Andrew Taylor is the most interesting novelist writing on crime in England today (Spectator )
About the Author
Andrew Taylor is the award-winning author of a number of critically acclaimed crime novels, including the Lydmouth series, the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy (ITV's Fallen Angel) and The American Boy, his bestselling historical novel which was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. He lives in the Forest of Dean.
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37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Taylor at his best.....a feast for fans of The American Boy,
By William (Buckinghamshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bleeding Heart Square (Hardcover)
For anyone who enjoyed The American Boy, Bleeding Heart Square is going to bring you hurtling back to Andrew Taylor. War is looming, Mosley's Blackshirts are at large and the old class order is disintegrating in the uncertainty and anxiety of 1930s London. The mystery of the disappearance of a middle aged woman touches a cast of displaced characters and strange, unsettling events unfold. Their epicentre is a dingy house in a square stranded on the edge of the City. It's not a homely place. This is Taylor at his very best: gripping, immaculately well researched, cleverly plotted and literary. A great Gothic read which kept me up half the night. Strongly recommended.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Cracking Yarn,
By Hannah H (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bleeding Heart Square (Paperback)
I bought this on a whim upon realising Andrew Taylr was also the author of The American Boy, which I had read a few years previously. I'm a fan of gothic literature so was interested to read a modern take on the genre, set in an unconventional time period. I'll not recap the plot, but as a London resident I am familiar with the area where the real Bleeding Heart Square is, and that certainly helped with my visualisation. The story itself was really good, I enjoyed the characterisation of Lydia, I had thought from the outset I would dislike her as a protagonist but became very sympathetic to her plight. I also particularly enjoyed Taylor's recreation of the London 1937, the Blackshirts, the unemployment, the social unrest, the class divide all rang true and evoked the London of that time. Unlike some reviewers I did not find the first half slow, I thought the whole book ran along at quite a fast pace and I enjoyed switching between the views of Rory, Lydia and the other characters. I didn't give it a full 5 stars becuase I have to say I didn't enjoy the ending, in my mind the invisible reader of Mis Penhow's diaries did not ring true, logically they made sense, but did not really fit into the book as a whole. That said I think that is a personal preference and I would say that other people may disagree, and would throughly recommend this book to others. I will certainly be reading more Andrew Taylor as a result.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gripping,
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This review is from: Bleeding Heart Square (Hardcover)
This is completely engrossing from page one as you get lost in Taylor's fluid writing style. The book is a rich treasure trove of real substance with menacing psychological undertones. The heroine is drawn into the politics of the time, providing a sophisticated and absorbing take on the violent Fascist world. The Square itself is a real place (Bleeding Heart Yard in London), and immediately after finishing the book I couldn't help paying it a visit - this really concreted how much I loved the book because the sense of place is so vivid.
Highly recommended.
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