Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton Aubrey Beardsley And as they set out

And as they set out from the count’s castle

and rents a room in a hotel on an island at the city’s edge

and the story – largely by balancing evocative description with just enough (often slightly strange and mysterious) action

translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman / ISBN 9781250829788 / 370-page paperback from Picador

and hermaphroditic twins are assassinated in a stagecoach

Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton Aubrey Beardsley And as they set outHangover Square by Patrick Hamilton ISBN 9780349141565 405 page paperback from Abacus (UK) *** The seventy fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn. London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell, except in his 'dead' moments, when something goes click in his head