My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time - Couverture rigide

Charlotte supports herself and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, as a prostitute in nineteenth century Copenhagen. But Charlotte's life is altered irrevocably when one hard winter, she stumbles on an exciting new source of income, only to find herself at the mercy of the controller of a demonic time machine. Suddenly she is in twenty-first century London, a baffling world of glass, tin, and labour-saving devices. But luckily a handsome stranger is more than happy to show her the ropes...

Liz Jensen is the author of Egg Dancing (longlisted for the Orange Prize), Ark Baby (shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize), The Paper Eater, War Crimes for the Home (longlisted for the Orange Prize) and The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, currently in development as a major motion picture by Anthony Minghella. She divides her time between Copenhagen and London.