The Twilight Hour - Softcover

Wilson, Elizabeth

3.23

26 ratings by Goodreads

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ISBN 10: 185242477X ISBN 13: 9781852424770

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2007

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“This is an atmospheric book in which foggy, half-ruined London is as much a character as the artists and good-time girls who wander through its pages.”—Time Out

Elizabeth Wilson’s elegant noir vividly evokes the fashions and politics of a bohemian community flourishing in postwar London. The Twilight Hour is a riveting thriller with a corkscrew twist.

Visiting professor at the London College of Fashion, Elizabeth Wilson is a well-known UK writer on feminism and popular culture.

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About the Author:

An independent researcher and writer best known for her commentaries on feminism and popular culture, Elizabeth Wilson is currently Visiting Professor at the London College of Fashion. She is the author of several non-fiction books and has written two other crime novels: The Lost Time Caf� and Poisoned Hearts.

From Publishers Weekly:

British commentator Wilson (The Lost Time Caf�), whose nonfiction focus is feminism and popular culture, does little with her intriguing choice of period in this unremarkable historical whodunit. 1947 London is beset both by a record-breaking freeze and by the country's bumpy return to normalcy after the traumas of WWII. Against this background, Wilson has placed a young and callow heroine, Dinah Wentworth, a newly-married socialite whose na�vet� (and penchant for exclamation points) will grate on some readers. Wentworth's dull existence is brightened when her filmmaker husband, Alan, falls in with a mysterious Romanian film director, Radu Enescu, and his leading lady, Gwendolen Grey, who want to use him to write the screenplay for a romantic feature film. After Dinah stumbles across a corpse, she panics and doesn't notify the authorities, leading to predictable complications. An unsurprising solution to the murder and unconvincing period detail leaves readers as cold as the London winter.
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