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The Repentant Morning (Hardcover)

by Chris Paling (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 249 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd (13 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0224063316
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224063319
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,277,471 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Chris Paling's remarkable new novel is set in Civil War Spain and in the pubs of Fitzrovia and Soho in the summer and autumn of 1936. In London a group of young people live out an aimless existence, their only excitements drink, sex and sporadic violence. Two of them, Meredith Kerr - an 'actress' who never actually acts - and Billy Royle, are acolytes of Harry Bowden, the wealthy Mosleyite owner of a car showroom. On the fringes of their circle is Arthur Lawler, broke, without a job, only intermittently sober, whose sole purpose in life is to get close to Meredith. But, on the night the book opens, Meredith has met Lawler's friend Kit Renton, and she has fallen in love. Renton is on his way to Spain, where he joins one of the Republican militias and plunges straight into the terrible fighting on the Aragon front. He is eventually captured and imprisoned by Franco's forces. Meanwhile Meredith, finding a purpose at last, sets off to Spain to find him...Chris Paling's first novel, After the Raid, was an astonishing imaginative reconstruction of London in the Blitz. The Repentant Morning is even more impressive, perfectly capturing - and contrasting - the sordid ennui of the Londoners' world with that of the fighters in Spain. This is another very fine novel by one of Britain's most interesting writers.

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A brilliant, atmospheric novel set in London and Spain in the 1930s.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A marvellous evocation of 1930s Fitzrovia, 1 Jul 2003
By J. R. S. Morrison "Bibliomane" (Adelaide, SA, Australia) - See all my reviews
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With a title drawn from a quote from the neglected Patrick Hamilton's masterpiece 'Hangover Square', this novel is well grounded in the smoky, dingy world of Fitzrovia boozers in 1936. It is the tale of Meredith Kerr, beautiful but troubled woman,and four men drawn into her orbit - a Mosleyite and his dapper sidekick, a hopeless, homeless romantic, and an idealistic Anarchist on his way to fight in the Spanish Civil War. To say more about the plot risks spoiling things; suffice to say that this is a wonderful book. The first Paling I've read, but now I'm seeking out his others.
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