Also known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to Me is a
Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve of the Second
World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction
by Ed Glinert, author of The London Compendium. It is 1938 and the
prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant.
But the city
doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love,
fight and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at No.10
Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns
home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift.
The
other residents include faded actress Connie; tinned food-loving Mr
Puddy; widowed landlady Mrs Vizzard (whose head is turned by her new
lodger, a self-styled 'Professor of Spiritualism'); and flashy young
mechanic Percy Boon, whose foray into stolen cars descends into
something much, much worse... Norman Collins (1907-1982) was a British
writer, and later a radio and television executive, who was responsible
for creating Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4, and became one of the major
figures behind the establishment of the Independent Television (ITV)
network in the UK. In all Norman Collins wrote 16 novels and two plays,
including London Belongs to Me (1945), The Governor's Lady (1968) and
The Husband's Story (1978).
London Belongs to Me - Norman Collins
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