If you read Nation, Truckers or even Good Omens you will see that these too are very different and yet no less clever or entertaining. I've heard a few people complain that Dodger doesn't feel like a Pratchett novel, that it hasn't got the same humour and yes I'd agree that Dodger is different but only so far as any of Pratchett's novels are different when they aren't set on the world that sits on the back of 4 giant elephants being transported through space under the propulsion of Great A'Tuin the Star Turtle. Instead we are treated to a trip through a Dickensian London following the fortunes of Dodger, resourceful rascal with more potential than a comet hurtling towards the earth. I was quite surprised when I got my hands on this book, given a cursory glance I was expecting it to be a return to Discworld after the quite brilliant science fiction novel The Long Earth. It all starts when a young women is beset upon by two ruffians and Dodger rescues the young lady from certain death. Dodger, a young sewer "tosher" who works beneath the streets of Victorian London is guided along series of events that will transform his life and those around him.
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