Hemlock and After is a 1952 novel by British writerAngus Wilson; it was his first published novel after a series of short stories. 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.
Characters in Hemlock and Afteredit
Bernard Sands, the protagonist; a homosexual
Ella, Bernard's wife
Elizabeth, the Sandses' daughter
James, the Sandses' son
Charles, a friend of Bernard; a senior civil servant
Mrs Curry, the Sands's neighbour; a procuress for pedophiles
Hubert Rose, an architect and a pedophile
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References to other worksedit
Angus Wilson said in an interview that the ending of the novel was Dickensian.[1]
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