War Damage - Softcover

Wilson, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846686504 ISBN 13: 9781846686504

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2009

Synopsis

London in the aftermath of World War II is a beaten down, hungry place, so it’s no wonder that Regine Milner’s Sunday house parties are so popular. But when one of Regine’s party guests turns up dead, there is no shortage of suspects.

War Damage is full of secrets, sexual experimentation, and surprises.

Elizabeth Wilson is an independent researcher and writer best known for her commentaries on feminism and popular culture. She is currently a visiting professor at the London College of Fashion.

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An independent researcher & writer best known for her commentaries on feminism & popular culture, Elizabeth Wilson is currently Visiting Professor at the London College of Fashion. She is the author of several non-fiction books including Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity, and Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts. She has written two other crime novels: The Lost Time Café and Poisoned Hearts

Review

[A] first class whodunit...The portrait of Austerity Britain is masterfully done...the most fascinating character in this impressive work is the exhausted capital itself. -- Julia Handford * Sunday Telegraph * [Wilson] evokes louche, bohemian NW3 with skill and relish -- John O'Connell * Guardian * The era of austerity after the Second World War makes an entertaining and convincing backdrop to Elizabeth Wilson's fine second novel, War Damage...A delight to read -- Marcel Berlins * The Times * This book is as stylish as one would hope. An evocative, escapist tale of murder and secrecy in post-war London, War Damage paints a picture of a city that, way before the '60s (even in the rubble of the Blitz), was swinging -- Lauren Laverne * Grazia * War Damage captures the murky, exhausted feel of post war London. Buildings and lives are being reconstructed and shady pasts covered over. The atmosphere of secrecy and claustrophobia is as thick as the swirling dust of recently bombed buildings. Wilson excels at a good story set in exquisite period detail -- Jane Cholmeley Cultural historian Elizabeth Wilson used post-second World War austerity Britain as the setting for a crime novel in her atmospheric The Twilight Hour (2006), set around bohemian Fitzrovia and Brighton in 1947. In this loose sequel, she again brilliantly evokes that bleak world of bomb sites and food shortages...Wilson presents a nation struggling to get back on its feet, but she does not overdo the period detail...Regine is an idiosyncratic, vivid protagonist -- Peter Guttridge * Observer * [A] sleek and vivid period piece * Gay Times * War Damage is a superb historical thriller, as thick with ideas, observations and atmosphere as the London fogs it so eloquently describes -- Mike Ripley * Shots Ezine * Fantastically atmospheric... with the sort of breathy dialogue that reminds you of Brief Encounter * Sunday Express * An elegantly nostalgic, noir thriller; brilliantly conjures up the rackety confusion of Cold War London * Daily Mail * Brilliantly captures the great city trying to come back to life after the privations of the war. -- N/A * Good Book Guide *

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846686504
• ISBN 13: 9781846686504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256