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Book SynopsisAbacus is reissuing all of Patrick Hamilton's novels, to bring them to a new audience.
Twopence Coloured, Hamilton's second novel, relishes in London - the 'vast, thronged, unknown, hooting, electric-lit, dark-rumbling metropolis'.
Trade ReviewHamilton's third novel takes its name from a toy theatre and constructs a between-the-wars stage set of dreary provincial fleapit and transient West End glitter from personal experience of a profession that would dazzle, exhault and thwart him. The story of awkward ingenue Jackie begins, as did Hamilton, in Hove, from where she persues her dream to West Kensington, future backdrop of the author's greatest dramas. Jackie's fate is set as she steps on the train and meets Richard, a seasoned actor who will become her mentor and then lover - but not until she has "travelled not less than 20,000 miles" in rep, across the "infinite piquancies and horrors" of "Sunday England" - Guardian
