num_pages: 240
description: Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Lucky Chances, the sisters are the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. At once ribald and sentimental, glittery and tender, this rambunctious family saga is Angela Carter at her bewitching best.
language: English
title: Wise Children
titlecomplete: Wise Children
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 8722
publisher: Penguin