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Describing an epic battle of personalities in the harsh environment of a claustrophobic pension, Hamilton created one of the most sensitive books ever written on the ordeals of a solitary heart.
We are in England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has become a way of life. Miss Roach, a lonely woman of thirty-nine, has left behind London and its constant bombiings to seek shelter in a small provincial town by renting a room at the Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding house. There, she will sink into the monotony of a colorless everyday life between dainty, suspicious and even offensive co-residents, “subservient to the loneliness of her every act”. Describing an epic battle of personalities in the harsh environment of a claustrophobic pension, Hamilton created one of the most sensitive books ever written on the ordeals of a solitary heart.
Surprisingly modern … acerbic, true, hard, ironic … If you’re interested in flying from Dickens to Martin Amish with one stop, then Hamilton is your man.
Slaves of Solitude seems to me a masterpiece and certainly one of the best novels to come out of the Second World War.
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