The Sparkler

<p><strong>A dark hymn to pre-Victorian London in all its grotty glory</strong>. Nick Perry author of <em>The Loop</em></p><p>Charles Dickens is a newly famous author and a man who has only just married. He thinks that he is about to become a father. </p><p>Why then does he go wandering London after dark and why under the influence of a famous clown does he begin an affair with Sarah a barmaid who works in a North London pub?</p><p>While his own descriptions of sex barely exist he becomes immersed in an affair so all-consuming that his life begins to fall apart. He takes to drink he develops a liking for rough company he even steals a necklace. Where will it end?</p><p>During a Christmas entertainment held in his own house Dickens Sarah and his wife edge towards a confrontation that has the potential to ruin him for ever.</p>