Oliver & Jack At Lodgings in Lyme (Fagin’s Boy, Book 2)
by Christina E. Pilz
Publication Date: June 14, 2015
Blue Rain Press
eBook & Paperback; 450 Pages
Genre: Historical/LGBT/M/M Romance
An ex-apprentice and his street thief companion flee the dangers of Victorian London and the threat of the hangman’s noose in search of family and the promise of a better life.
After Oliver Twist commits murder to protect Jack Dawkins (The Artful Dodger), both must flee London’s familiar but dangerous environs for safety elsewhere. Together they travel to Lyme Regis in the hopes of finding Oliver’s family. Along the way, Jack becomes gravely ill and Oliver is forced to perform manual labor to pay for the doctor’s bills.
While Oliver struggles to balance his need for respectability with his growing love for Jack, Jack becomes disenchanted with the staid nature of village life and his inability to practice his trade. But in spite of their personal struggles, and in the face of dire circumstances, they discover the depth of their love for each other.
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About Christina E. Pilz
Christina was born in Waco, Texas in 1962. After living on a variety of air force bases, in 1972 her Dad retired and the family moved to Boulder, Colorado. There amidst the clear, dry air of the high plains, as the moss started to grow beneath her feet, her love for historical fiction began with a classroom reading of Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
She attended a variety of community colleges (Tacoma Community College) and state universities (UNC-Greeley, CU-Boulder, CU-Denver), and finally found her career in technical writing, which, between layoffs, she has been doing for 18 years. During that time, her love for historical fiction and old-fashioned objects, ideas, and eras has never waned.
In addition to writing, her interests include road trips around the U.S. and frequent flights to England, where she eats fish and chips, drinks hard cider, and listens to the voices in the pub around her. She also loves coffee shops, mountain sunsets, prairie storms, and the smell of lavender. She is a staunch supporter of the Oxford comma.
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Giveaway to Win Oliver & Jack At Lodgings in Lyme by Christina E. Pilz
This giveaway is for the winner’s choice of one print or ebook copy of the book. This giveaway is open to Canada and the U.S. only and ends on October 14, 2015. Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.
Blog Tour Schedule for Oliver & Jack At Lodgings in Lyme by Christina E. Pilz
Monday, September 28
Spotlight & Giveaway at Passages to the Past
Tuesday, September 29
Review at Bibliotica
Spotlight at I Heart Reading
Wednesday, September 30
Guest Post & Giveaway at Teddy Rose Book Reviews Plus More
Friday, October 1
Spotlight at Book Nerd
Monday, October 5
Review & Giveaway at Peeking Between the Pages
Tuesday, October 6
Review at Svetlana’s Reads and Views
Spotlight at A Literary Vacation
Friday, October 9
Spotlight at History Undressed
Tuesday, October 13
Spotlight at CelticLady’s Reviews
Wednesday, October 14
Review at Broken Teepee
Never did read Oliver Twist. Looks interesting. Thanks for the giveaway.
I have been a Dickens’ fan ever since my dad gave me the Centennial Edition of his complete works for Christmas many years ago. Along with “A Christmas Carol”, I read “Oliver Twist” each Christmas.As well as the Centennial Edition of “Oliver Twist”, I was lucky to find a very early. leather-bound copy, from the second publisher of Dickens, on a trip to England.I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in this series, “Fagin’s Boy” and am delighted to learn, that the author has written a trilogy.I love the author’s style of writing. When you read her book, you can imagine, that it was written by Dickens himself.
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Speak of the Dickens, I just finished Great Expectations and have read and studied his novels a fair bit, so this really strikes my fancy now. Really, any take-off by a modern author those touchstones of the English-language (or Western) literary tradition are going to arouse a great interest in me.
Plus, I read Pilz’s last novel and liked it very much, so that certainly bears on my confidence that this is a read that is bound to suit my fancy. 😉 I congratulate the author on her ambition in writing take-offs of well-known works of such a luminary. I think ambition is a distinguishing trait among great writers, just IMHO.
Thanks for featuring this book and giveaway, Teddy — you are the sunshine of my life (even if you never see me! 😉 Cheers, Kara S