Book description
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 comically rendered āmasterpieceā from the author of Gaslight (The Times Literary Supplement)
England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fatedā¦
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Patrick Hamilton has a wonderfully simple and direct style, and is always utterly compelling, no matter if heās writing about ordinary people going about their daily lives. This wartime novel seems to happen a long way from the war itself, though it is set in Maidenhead, which was far enough away from the capital to be thought safe for evacuees. We spend our time with a wonderfully cliquey and gossipy set of boarding house tenants who constantly compete with each other and have their own little wars and conflicts. Like many of Hamiltonās novels it has a theatrical quality, readingā¦
From Gerard's list on human stories behind World War Two.
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