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War Damage
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Book Details
- ISBN 9781846686924
- 4 February 2010
- Paperback
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Synopsis
London in the aftermath of WW2 is a beaten down, hungry place, so it’s no wonder that Regine Milner’s Sunday house parties in her Hampstead home are so popular. Everyone comes to Reggie’s on a Sunday: ballet dancers and cabinet ministers, left-over Mosleyites alongside flamboyant homosexuals like Freddie Buckingham. And when Freddie turns up dead on the Heath one Sunday night there are no shortage of suspects.
WAR DAMAGE is both a high-class thriller and a wonderful evocation of Britain staggering back to its feet after the privations of the War. And in Regine Milner it possesses a truly memorable heroine. She’s full of secrets – just what did happen in Shanghai before the war? – and surprises – Reggie’s living proof that sexual experimentation was alive and well long before the sixties.
Reviews
‘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