A Story of Darkest Earl's Court
Patrick Hamilton - Author
J. B. Priestley - Introduction by £9.99
Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 288 pages | ISBN 9780141185897 | 28 Jun 2001 | Penguin Classic
London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head and he realizes that he must kill her.
‘A masterly novel … you can almost smell the gin’ Keith Waterhouse, Spectator
‘One of the great books of the twentieth century’ Independent on Sunday