I've been reading this in fits and starts over my lunchtimes and have to admit to finding it a little hard going at the moment. I think I need to give it a bit of a blast in order to get into the style of writing. Dickens puts in a lot of omniscient narrator stuff which sits strangely for a modern reader I think, and the fact that it was originally in serial form (I imagine) probably doesn't help. I'm not very far through yet, but I have no idea really what it's about, or what is going to happen! The thing I think I find hardest about books of this period is that they often don't refer to people by name, or refer to them by several different names and it gets very confusing.
I'll give it a proper go over the weekend and see how I go.
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