Twopence Coloured av Patrick Hamilton

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<p><b>''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</b><br><br><b>''If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man'' Nick Hornby</b><br><br><br><b>Patrick Hamilton''s novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne''s new dance theatre production, <i>The Midnight Bell</i>.</b><br><br>West Kensington - grey area of rot, and caretaking, and cat-slinking basements. West Kensington - drab asylum for the driven and cast-off genteel!'' Patrick Hamilton was acutely conscious that his third novel (first published in 1928) was longer and ''much grimmer'' than his previous and well-received productions. <i>Twopence Coloured </i>is the story of nineteen-year-old Jackie Mortimer, who leaves Hove in search of a life on the London stage, only to become entangled in ''provincial theatre'' and complex affairs of the heart wi