Anyway - this novel is about Lucie Manette and her father Alexander. Alexander had been imprisoned unfairly for the better part of 18 years. Young Lucie didn't even know he was alive until a solicitor (Jarvis Lorry) found her and took her to her father. Joyous at their reunion, they soon move in together and become a tight and loving familial unit.
Along comes Charles Darney whom Lucie falls in love with and marries. At the same time, Sydney Carton professes his love for Lucie to her father - but swears the father to secrecy as he knows that their love can never be.
This all takes place in London - meanwhile in Paris a revolution is brewing (this book is historical fiction). Charles Darney receives a letter from an old employee who has been wrongfully imprisoned and decides he has to go back to Paris to prove why his employee shouldn't be in prison. The secret that everybody knows except for Lucie is that Charles Darney is really Charles St. Evremonde who is a French noble. When he gets to Paris, he is found out - and is himself thrown in prison. (They were throwing all of the nobles in prison.)
Jarvis Lorry (the solicitor that got father and daughter back together) was already in Paris on his own business. When he finds out about Charles Darney, he calls Lucie and her father to Paris so they can help him get Charles out of prison.
How he gets out of prison and what happens after that, is up to you to find out when you read the book!
I have to say I enjoyed this Dickens book more than I did the last book of his that I read. But then that is probably why this book is a classic and the last one is not. I was a little confused about the history of the French Revolution - I wish Dickens had put more about that in the book so I could feel like I had a grasp on the subject, but other than that - I really enjoyed the book.
Rating: 8 / 10
ISBN: 0192545043
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: Unknown