Dodger

Terry Pratchett is one of my all time favorite writers.  I think I’ve read everything he’s ever written and liked all of it.  In the book Dodger he departs from his normal environment of the discworld to set a tale in our own actual world.  Dodger is set in London during the first quarter of Queen Victoria’s reign and is full of accurate details of that time and place.  We follow the adventures of a scrappy orphan boy as he devises and puts into play a plot to save a damsel in distress.

The book was good both in story & in painting a picture of what life was like for the poor in London in the mid 1800’s.  I would recommend it.