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Craven House

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Patrick Hamilton
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    416
    Publisher:
    Little, Brown Book Group (February 20, 2024)
    Language:
    English
    ISBN-13:
    9780349141510
    ISBN-10:
    0349141517
    Dimensions:
    5" x 7.75"
    File:
    hbgusa-hbgusa_onix30_P10401407_07272026-20260727.xml
    Folder:
    hbgusa
    List Price:
    $19.99
    As low as:
    $15.39
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-HACH
    Discount Code:
    A
    Weight:
    9.92oz
    Case Pack:
    24
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    Abacus
  • Overview

    All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters

    Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell.

    In Craven House, among the shifting, uncertain world of the English boarding house, with its sad population of the shabby genteel on the way down - and the eternal optimists who would never get up or on - the young Patrick Hamilton, with loving, horrified fascination, first mapped out the territory that he would make, uniquely, his own. 

    Although many of Hamilton's lifelong interests are here, they are handled with a youthful brio and optimism conspicuously absent from his later work. The inmates of Craven House have their foibles, but most are indulgently treated by an author whose world view has yet to harden from scepticism into cynicism. 

    The generational conflicts of Hamilton's own youth thread throughout the narrative, with hair bobbing and dancing as the battle lines. That perennial of the 1920s bourgeoisie, the 'servant problem', is never far from the surface, and tensions crescendo gradually to a resolution one climactic dinnertime.