Hemlock and After

The novel offers a candid portrayal of gay life in post-World War II England.

Bernard Sands, a prominent writer who has been given financial aid to start a writer's colony at Vardon Hall, faces a failing marriage, attempts to come to grips with his homosexuality and lives next door to a procuress for paedophiles.

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First UK edition
(publ. Secker & Warburg )
Cover art by Ronald Searle