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Laura
Feb 03, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
The Midnight Bell
Patrick Hamilton - Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky Episode 1 of 3

London, 1927: Bob meets a prostitute called Jenny and Ella is invited to the theatre by Mr Eccles.

Starring Steven Pacey as Bob, Annette Badland as Ella, Emily Morgan as Jenny and John Moffatt as Ernest Eccles

Patrick Hamilton's semi-autobiographical trilogy set in working class, inter-war London.

Violet.... Alice Arnold
Rex.... Christopher Good
Andy ... David Goudge
Tom ... Paul Downing
Maria ...more
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Austin
Dec 27, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
A wonderful read. Depicts post-WWII working-class life and love in the U.K as experienced by three denizens of a particular seedy bar in London - two women and a man - each competing for, and losing, the objects of their dreams. Plainspoken, hard-edged, tragic, amusing, unflinching, well worth a read.
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Nicholas During
Jul 10, 2012 rated it really liked it
I've only read the first book so far, "The Midnight Bell," so will limit my comments for now. However I really like what I've read. Not so angry as the English writers after the WWII, and in fact quite a humanist, which I was surprised about since I thought it was going to be totally hard-boiled, genre, blood-and-guts on the bar floor. But really it's about how hard life is for the poor in particular, and really probably everyone. The dialogue is excellent, not many people do it better, and I li ...more
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