Download or read book A Time Before Oliver written by Eleanor Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work takes the two characters, Bill Sikes and Nancy, from the classic Dickens novel Oliver Twist, and imagines their lives before they met Oliver. It is the story of two orphans, struggling to survive in 19th-century London.