Hangover Square is a darkly comic book based in the seedy and fog bound world of Earls Court's public houses and cheap lodgings during the lead up to WWII containing a small cast of boozing philosophers, immortalising the tone of that generation in the style of Patrick Hamiltons writing. Character Synopsis George Harvey Bon e George is a big built, kind hearted wastrel who is obsessed with the lovely Netta Longdon. It is apparent early on that George is suffering from an undiagnosed mental illness of Schizophrenia whereby he comes in and out of his normal and fugue states with a "click" throughout the story. During these times it is apparent he is more conscious of the way Netta and her entourage treat him and during these episodes tells us his various plans to kill Netta Longdon. This murderous mindset initially appears in his fugue state however, as the plot continues and his mental health diminishes it is well written and clearly apparent that his tw...
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