Mr. Timothy: A Novel
by Louis Bayard
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Author: Louis BayardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-10-26
ISBN: 0060534222
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Reviews of Mr. Timothy: A Novel
Book Review: "Not so tiny anymore, that's a fact"
Summary: 5 Stars
Tiny Tim, who dresses out at roughly 5 feet 8 inches in this 'sequel' of sorts to 'A Christmas Carol' is certianly no shrinking violet...at least not in the mind of author Louis Bayard.
I am very much a fan of novels that take well-established literary, historical, or film characters, such as Elphaba in Wicked, and give them either a backstory or a 'future' story and tell us more about them....as long as the author either has the imagination to really wow readers with deviation from the tried and true, or can simply write a continuation of the tried and true with plotting that remains true to the character. In my mind, Louis Bayard has accomplished the latter for Tiny Tim with this novel.
'Orphaned' now (with both parents having died) and finding himself short on siblings compared with his childhood, Timothy Cratchit dwells in the 'underbelly' of London in his early twenties. He resides in a brothel, teaching the Madam of this establishment to read...at night he trolls the Thames, a la 'Our Mutual Friend' with his friend Captain Gully...and he sees the ghost of his father, Bob Cratchit, everywhere he goes....haunted by a feeling of things unresolved with his father.
Mr. Timothy finds himself drawn into a web of betrayal, torture, and murder as he discovers the bodies of two young girls on the London streets...and uncovers a sinister, sadistic plot involving other girls of a similar age. But that's really the most I can give away of the plot that propels this story along. Suffice to say that, along with the mystery element of the tale, author Louis Bayard serves up a cast of characters worthy of Mister Dickens himself (Colin the Melodious, Philomela the orphan girl, Captain Gully the river-trawler, etc.) that certainly provides intrigue and entertainment along the way.
While I would have loved a novel of a similar size as 'Drood' (one of my favorite alternate-history works involving author Charles Dickens or his creations), you can't have it all. What I did find in this work was a very enthralling, entertaining story which, though much darker in tone than the cheerful, feel-good ending of 'Christmas Carol', is a very satisfying read.
A wonderful Victorian mystery, full of twists and turns, and chock full of suspense, this thrust back into the world of 'Tiny Tim', while not so tiny anymore, is one I will definitely recommend to others.
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