Conversations with Dickens : a fictional dialogue based on biographical facts

Sheltering from a summer downpour, youencounter the ghost of Charles Dickens.

Join him for a chat in the inn belovedby Mr Pickwick and be swept away by his vigour, warmth and humanity.

You'llfeel as if you've known him all your life. The great novelist Charles Dickensattracted international adulation on an unprecedented scale.

He cultivated agenial intimacy with his readers, and after he died many of his admirers feltthat they had lost a personal friend.

Sit back and listen to this masterconversationalist talk about everything from work in a boot-polish factory tolecture tours in America. Who could possibly ask for more?