Our Mutual Friend, Charles DickensCharles Dickens's last complete novel and a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London, inhabited by such disparate characters as Gaffer

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she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son

boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty

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Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse

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