Dodger by Terry Pratchett

Dodger

by Terry Pratchett

Dodger is a tosher - a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn't. But when he rescues a young girl from a beating, suddenly everybody wants to know him. And Dodger's tale of skulduggery, dark plans and even darker deeds begins ...

Reviewed by jeannamichel on

3 of 5 stars

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I went into this thinking it was an Oliver Twist retelling in Dodger’s point of view. It may have been about Dodger but it turned out to be a little ridiculous. Sweeny Todd was present and even Charles Dickens himself. I was a bit confused at the point of it all.

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