Hangover Square
Patrick Hamilton
Available as Downloadable audio
Cult reading by Julian Rhind Tutt
Set in late 1930s London, Hangover Square is the brilliant and disquieting tale of George Harvey Bone, a perpetual drunk. He suffers from ‘dark’ moods, which click on and off without warning, as if someone has tripped a switch in his head. On his supposedly better days, George whiles away his time nursing a pint or six and obsessing about the attractive but cruel small-time actress Netta. Disgusted by his own helpless devotion and his increasingly erratic behaviour, George is driven to the edge - culminating in Hangover Square’s spectacular and haunting climax.
Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, esteemed actor who first became famous in Green Wing.
“Rhind-Tutt’s presentation of Bone’s cinematic first-person narrative cleverly builds the tension of the mental conflicts which make up Bone’s distorted vision of what is going on around him. It’s a tense and gripping study of a drink-fuelled mental disintegration.”
rachel Redford, The Observer
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Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton (1904-62) was an English novelist and playwright, famed for his black humour.
Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt is a talented actor who has appeared in Green Wing. His distinctive reading style is perfectly suited to Hangover Square.