Though THE DAY THE CALL CAME reads like fantasy, it is far from being that, and just how horrifyingly real it all is becomes clear as the story develops. When the call came, Harry Bale, the nervous eccentric hero, was ready for it. He receives his si...
"Mr Nicholas" is a devastating study of the domestic horrors of English suburbia, personified by the Nicholas family and its snobbish patriarch, a petty tyrant whose greatest pleasure is to sip gin while bullying and arguing with his beleaguered wife...