At the Chime of a City Clock
Summer 1931 in seedy Bayswater and James Ross is on his uppers. An aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy (''It''s the slump''), with a landlady harassing him for unpaid rent and occasional sleepless nights spent in the waiting room at King''s Cross Station, he is reduced to selling carpet-cleaning lotion door-to-door. His prospects brighten when he meets the glamorous Suzi (''the red hair ...
Summer 1931 in seedy Bayswater and James Ross is on his uppers. An aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy (''It''s the slump''), with a landlady harassing him for unpaid rent and occasional sleepless nights spent in the waiting room at King''s Cross Station, he is reduced to selling carpet-cleaning lotion door-to-door. His prospects brighten when he meets the glamorous Suzi (''the red hair ...
