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Set at the outskirts of the breakout of world war 2, it tells the story of social misfit George Harvey Bone and his constant battle between his love for beautiful but untouchable Netta and his resentment and hatred of her and everything she represents. George is blighted by periods where his mind "clicks" in and out of "dead" moods. Exacerbated by drinking to excess, you're taken on a fly on the wall journey into his unravelling.

So true 😂😂😂

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Thought you could all relate to this 💔😂 #bookworm #bookhangover

A very dark story of a man George Bone obsessed by Netta, a woman who manipulates men and particularly the apparently weak alcoholic George. Set in 1939 London as the war is about to start the atmosphere is beautifully drawn but tension is gripping. This writer wrote Hitchcocks Rope and Gaslight, the story is a penguin classic and deserves to be, a brief look at his biography also reveals a tragic life- well worth exploring

"Then he remembered, without any difficulty, what it was he had to do: he had to kill Netta Longden.
He was going to kill her, and then he was going to Maidenhead, where he would be happy."
Starting a book and author I've been meaning to read for years. I love British domestic bleakness when you can see the yellow wallpaper from cigarette smoke, the faded curtains, and as in this first chapter run down seaside towns.