Patrick Hamilton
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“Gritty, real, tough, and sardonic.” —Nick Hornby, author of Funny Girl
“Fabulously poignant.” —Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith
As World War II drags on, the lonely Miss Roach flees London for the dull but ostensible safety of a suburban boarding house in this “pitch-perfect comedy” about “the passions and tensions of war” (The Independent).
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“Fabulously poignant.” —Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith
As World War II drags on, the lonely Miss Roach flees London for the dull but ostensible safety of a suburban boarding house in this “pitch-perfect comedy” about “the passions and tensions of war” (The Independent).
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NYRB Classics presents 3 darkly humorous, atmospheric novellas of love and disappointment, set in a run-down London pub after WWI—from the author of the Hitchcock classics Gaslight and Rope.
“Bleak and brilliant. . . an authentic lost classic.” —The Guardian
Featuring a Dickensian cast of pubcrawlers, prostitutes, lowlifes, and just plain losers who are looking for love—or just...
“Bleak and brilliant. . . an authentic lost classic.” —The Guardian
Featuring a Dickensian cast of pubcrawlers, prostitutes, lowlifes, and just plain losers who are looking for love—or just...