The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti

I picked this up from the library because I was impressed by a couple of the reviews, particularly one imagining families reading it aloud together. Having read it, I would hesitate to choose this sometimes gruesome tale as a bedtime story - too many grave-robbers and mining disasters for my liking! I did enjoy it on one level - it has an engaging plot and some memorable characters - but overall I found the experience of reading it rather unsettling. (This may just have been because I had toothache while reading the description of the robbers trying to sell rotten teeth to a dentist?)