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Sunday at the Cross Bones (Paperback)
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Sunday at the Cross Bones (Paperback)
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A kaleidoscopic journey through post-World War I London in the
footsteps of the real-life Rector of Stiffkey - a story by turns
funny, moving and scandalous. It's 1930, and the long post-war
party has ended in a giant collective hangover. The flappers have
hung up their dancing shoes. The streets of London are teeming with
homeless and desperate men and women; the flotsam left in the wake
of the General Strike. The bars and cafes are full of seedy
chancers and girls who will forget their mothers' warnings for the
price of a mutton-chop supper. Through this moral wasteland strides
Harold Davidson: clergyman, social worker, impulsive saver of
souls. With his white hair, 16-pocket overcoat, and his eye for
ladies poised on the edge of perdition, he is an unlikely Messiah.
No London park, Holborn public house or Drury Lane brothel is a
stranger to his mission: to find girls who have strayed, or are
about to stray, down the 'primrose path' to Hell, and pull them
back by any means at his disposal. Meanwhile, in the little parish
of Stiffkey on the Norfolk coast, his Irish wife Moyra is trying to
feed her family and stop the local Major from wrecking her
husband's reputation. Her letters to a Dublin confidante reveal the
extraordinary journey that has brought her marriage to its present
dire state. When Harold meets Barbara Harris, a 16-year-old London
prostitute who confounds his ethical certainties, it's the start of
a chain of events that will pitch all their lives into disarray: a
clanging chorus that involves bishops and circus strongmen, Indian
princelings and Fleet Street hacks, lurking private eyes and
reeking Islington stews, and will lead inexorably to a sensational
trial and a notorious defrocking...
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Imprint: |
HarperPerennial
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2008 |
Authors: |
John Walsh
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
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Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-713933-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-00-713933-0 |
Barcode: |
9780007139330 |
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