From the back cover:

Great Expectations open unforgettably in a twilit and overgrown churchyard on the eerie Kent marshes.

There the orphan Pip is disturbed to meet an escaped convict, Magwitch, but gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives. How Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor, snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and 'great expectations', and grows through misfortune and suffering to maturity is the theme of one of Dickens's best-loved novels.

In Great Expectations Dickens blends gripping drama with penetrating satire to give a compelling story rich in comedy and pathos: he has also created two of his finest, most haunting characters in Pip and Miss Havisham.

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I read this book quite a few years ago. It's not my favourite of Dickens' works, but I still enjoyed it and definitely consider it worth reading!

Heading off to Guyana via BookMooch. Enjoy!

I thought it was lost in the post as it took over 6 months to get here-- thrilled to have it as it will be a Book Club selection next year-- many thanks-- about 5 other people will be reading this!