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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

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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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Beautifully read, the story has a mesmerising rhythm that draws you along to the climax. The details of Pre-WWII London are fascinating 75 years on

Fascinating study on relationships pre-war

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Amazing book and very well read. I felt every emotion with George and lived the historical setting in seedy Earl’s Court.

Brilliant

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This was truly an brilliant book. Not only did it bring to life London in 1939 but the plot was so unusual. I absolutely LOVED it.

Best book I've listened to for years exquisite x

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This is a fine, sad novel, beautifully read - nuanced and attentive to Hamilton's prose: bitter, bleak and involving

Fine novel

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Hamilton writes evocatively of despair, drinking, general London seediness on the cusp of WW2. Netta is one of fiction’s great monsters. George is a lost soul, sliding into mental illness as the country drifts as inexorably into war. The narrator Piers Hampton, is superb.

Bleakly brilliant

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A flawless performance of a beautiful book. So evocative and sad. One of my favourite audible experiences

Sublime and Melancholy

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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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Fabulous book. Made even better by the narrator. Felt like I was watching a film.

Brilliantly narrated

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One of the best audio books I've heard. Haunting and moving. The author is far better the Graham Greene.

brilliant story brilliantly told

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Oh, I loved this book. The reading was superb and well paced, with a terrific atmosphere - I finished it months ago but it it still plays on my mind. I keep hoping I’ll forget some of it so I can hear it all again... lucky people reading it for the first time.

A haunting read

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