Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, "Tattycoram" tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn . Throughout her career, Audrey Thomas has repeatedly challenged her readers to follow her into new territory. In Tattycoram , she does it again, taking readers into the distant fictional world of Charles Dickens's England, where, in an...