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So infectious that the most serious reader will put back his head and laugh aloud, not once but often. Anything so solemnly and gloriously young and unsophisticated as Anthony has seldom been captured on paper … A refreshing, effervescing, most lovable little book, and should be the first of many * Observer *Hamilton has drawn as good a picture of youth, as seen through youthful eyes, as any I have come across for some time * Tatler *Hamilton has performed a none too easy task with considerable credit; he has at once made Anthony a figure of fun and a character that claims your sympathy and affection. You can’t help laughing at Anthony, but at the same time you can laugh with him. And that is rare * Punch *

Patrick Hamilton was one of the most gifted and admired writers of his generation. His plays include Rope (1929), on which the Hitchcock thriller was based, and Gas Light (1939). Among his novels are The Midnight Bell, The Siege of Pleasure, The Plains of Cement, Twenty-thousand Streets Under the Sky, Hangover Square, The Slaves of Solitude and The West Pier. He died in 1962.

The Sunday Telegraph said: ‘His finest work can easily stand comparison with the best of this more celebrated contempories George Orwell and Graham Greene.’

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