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'A haunting and darkly beautiful retelling of Dickens's Great Expectations.' Karen Brooks, author. The icily enigmatic anti-hero of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells her own story ... and changes the ending in this beguiling feminist take on a classic for readers of Pip Williams and Karen Brooks.


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1 author picked Estella as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This was a brilliant idea, beautifully written. The author has written about the imagined life of Estella, the adopted daughter of Miss Haversham of Charles Dicken's fame and the story will enchant and delight.

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