Hangover Square captures the edgy, obsessive, and eventually murderous mindset of a romantically frustrated British man in this WWII-era novel.

London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous, and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell until something goes click in his head, and he realizes that he must kill her.