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Lissa Evans

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After a brief career in medicine, and an even briefer one in stand-up, Lissa Evans became a comedy producer, first in radio and then in television. Her first novel, Spencer's List, was published in 2002, and since then she has written three more books for adults (two of them longlisted for the Orange/Baileys Prize) and two for children (the first of them shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal). Her two most recent books for adults were set in London during the Second World War; one of them, 'Their Finest Hour and a Half' has now been made into a film entitled 'Their Finest', starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy ...more

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Crooked Heart

3.92 avg rating — 7,475 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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Old Baggage

3.85 avg rating — 6,042 ratings — published 2018 — 15 editions
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Horten's Miraculous Mechani...

3.92 avg rating — 3,504 ratings — published 2011 — 40 editions
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Their Finest Hour and a Half

3.60 avg rating — 2,278 ratings — published 2009 — 28 editions
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Small Bomb at Dimperley

4.03 avg rating — 2,005 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions
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V for Victory

4.25 avg rating — 1,786 ratings — published 2020 — 13 editions
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Wed Wabbit

3.93 avg rating — 1,200 ratings — published 2017 — 17 editions
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4.11 avg rating — 879 ratings — published 2012 — 30 editions
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Spencer's List

3.84 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
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Odd One Out

3.77 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions
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“Hobbies are for people who don’t read books,”
Lissa Evans, Crooked Heart

“I'll just hang upside down from the wire banana and throw bags of flour at the librarians.”
Lissa Evans, Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure

“The day after that, all the children disappeared, as if London had shrugged and the small people had fallen off the edge.”
Lissa Evans, Crooked Heart

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