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Hangover Square

By: Patrick Hamilton
Narrated by: Piers Hampton
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London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earl's Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation.

Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell except in his dead moments, when something goes click in his head and he realises, without a doubt, that he must kill her.

In the darkly comic Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton brilliantly evokes a seedy, fog-bound world of saloon bars, lodging houses and boozing philosophers, immortalising the slang and conversational tone of a whole generation and capturing the premonitions of doom that pervaded London life in the months before the war.

©2016 Patrick Hamilton (P)2016 Little Brown Book Group Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction Heartfelt Thought-Provoking England

Critic reviews

"I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific." (Sarah Waters)

"If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man." (Nick Hornby)
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P. Hampton: best performance ive ever listened to.

fantastic writing for close 3rd person narration

P. Hampton: best performance ive ever listened to

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Well narrated, Hamilton is an underrated writer though this production does him justice. It is “very much of its time” and not for someone who hates bleak books.

An excellent narration of a dark story.

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l read this book a long time ago when I was in my teens and forgot how much of a awesome this piece of writing this is Patrick Hamilton's have been forgotten in the modern age but truly worth seeking him out he takes you on a true emotional journey with some ordinary characters that you can relate to and the ending wow! Thanks Audible and Piers Hampton for his superb reading of this book I truly felt I did not want this story to end thanks again 5 Stars.
Andrew

a masterpiece

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Piers Hampton brought the characters to life with such brilliance. Gentle Jonny and sharp spiky Netta. I found the reading wonderful. Loved it so much!

Masterpiece

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A brilliant novel with a thriller element that kept me gripped. Beautifully narrated. I loved every second.

Wonderful

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