![]() The house now bears a blue plaque commemorating his residence there. Greene himself lived at 14 Clapham Common North Side from 1935 until bomb damage made him leave in 1940. In the Clapham area, the novel also takes in the Pontefract Arms, based on the actual and still open Windmill (now a Youngs pub) and St Mary’s Catholic Church in Clapham Park Road. The novel unfolds largely in the capital just before, during and just after the war and its metropolitan topography moves mainly between the north side of Clapham Common, where Henry Miles, a senior civil servant, lives with his wife Sarah in a ‘desireless’ marriage, and the south side (socially, at that time, ‘the wrong side’) of the Common where Sarah’s sometime lover Maurice Bendrix, an unmarried novelist, lodges. Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Guignol's Band I & II ![]() John Sommerfield: Trouble in Porter Street Pamela Hansford Johnson: This Bed Thy Centre ![]()
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