Patrick Hamilton is back in fashion after a period of neglect. This volume is a light-hearted satire on the English boarding house, handled with a youthful brio very different from Hamilton's later work. The author's eye is as sharp as ever, the characters acutely drawn and their interplay managed to great comic effect. Anthony Powell describes this work as Dickens with a touch of E.F. Benson'. Published in conjunction with Nigel Jones's biography of Hamilton, Through a Glass Darkly.'
- ISBN10 0948238402
- ISBN13 9780948238406
- Publish Date 10 July 2008 (first published 21 February 1991)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Black Spring Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 264
- Language English