Gorse (1953), with its vision of England smothered in metal beetles, reflects his loathing of the motor car. After Chamberlain’s visit to Munich the previous year and the shabby betrayals that followed, the mood seems to have been one of uncertainty shading into dread.

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The West End of his trilogy Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (1935) now shares space in Hangover Square with the lowering environs of Earl’s Court and desultory excursions to seaside towns. As long as we don’t put too much pressure on the term we can say that Bone represents a type of modern everyman: his liberal decencies immobilise him, much as Liberal western governments found themselves immobilised in 1936 when Franco invaded Spain. Slightly revised by the composer in 1973 for Charles Gerhardt's RCA film music series and retitled "Concerto Macabre," it has been recorded by RCA, Naïve, Koch and Naxos, in addition to the recording paired with Hogger's suite. Johnnie’s benign view of even the contemporary disaster of the Thetis (a submarine sunk in the Mersey in which all those on board in fact died) is not so much a way of whistling in the dark as a sudden irrational but understandable surge of optimism.Netta herself is sexually attracted to the fascist movement and its fetishistic totems: “She liked the uniforms, the guns, the breeches, the boots, the swastikas, the shirts.

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The hero and the book's main sufferer is George 'Bone', hopelessly obsessed with a failed actress Netta and on a self-destructive path. The disc also includes Hogger's extended suite based on Herrmann's incidental music for Citizen Kane (1941).The last seven words of this novel, which I cannot quote, sum up everything that happened in Hangover Square, perfectly and devastatingly. Hangover Square is perhaps his best-known work, but his novel The Slaves of Solitude also enjoys great popularity. This novel grinds on and on and on, you get hypnotised, towards an inevitable denouement which is pure pathos, so sad and strong and true.