Passing-Out Time
Christopher Tayler: Patrick Hamilton’s drinking, 29 January 2009
The Slaves of Solitude
by Patrick Hamilton.
Constable, 327 pp., £7.99, September 2008,978 1 84529 415 1 Show More
by Patrick Hamilton.
Constable, 327 pp., £7.99, September 2008,
The Gorse Trilogy
by Patrick Hamilton.
Black Spring, 603 pp., £9.95, June 2007,978 0 948238 34 5 Show More
by Patrick Hamilton.
Black Spring, 603 pp., £9.95, June 2007,
“... a letter exculpating her husband as the only good thing in her life.’ Bernard then married Ellen Day, the snobbish daughter of ‘a fashionable London dentist’. Their children grew up in a big house in Hove while Bernard slept off hangovers in his London chambers, spent time with his French mistress and did a spot of writing. His first novel, The ... ”