I finished this in October but waited to review until #whatthedickens was finished with it, and well, here I am. I want to write a 5-star review after some so-so books. Still I found this a difficult read when David was a youngster. His life was so downtrodden and he was so gullible, I almost gave the whole book a pass. And I hated so many characters so much it was hard to read about them. But Dickens has a way with describing characters. It‘s ⬇️