Lucky bunny
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jill Dawson
Edition: First U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780062202505
Subjects: Social life and customs; Thieves; Female offenders; Fiction
Description: Crime's a man's business. So they say. Who was that small figure then, slender enough to trot along the moonlit track, swift and low, virtually invisible? Who was it that covered the green signal with a glove to stop the train, while the two others took care of the driver and his mate? Could it have been one Queenie Dove, survivor of the Depression and the Blitz, not to mention any number of scrapes with the law?' Queenie Dove is a self-proclaimed genius when it comes to thieving and escape. Daring, clever and sexy, she ducked and dived through the streets of London from the East End through Soho to Mayfair, graduating from childhood shop-lifting to more glamorous crimes in the post-war decades. So was she wicked through and through, or more sinned against than sinning? Here she tells a vivacious tale of trickery and adventure, but one with more pain and heartbreak than its heroine cares to admit. Yes, luck often favoured her, but that is only part of the story.
Notes: Includes readers' guide with title: P.S., insights, interviews & more-- .

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2011 by Sceptre.