Patricia Highsmith The New York years, 1941-1950 Sarah Waters Virago FBA Paperback 2024 the wayward celebrity's Rolls Royce

the wayward celebrity's Rolls Royce Phantom is found abandoned in dingy Becket Street

as the Second World War nears its endgame and the British prisoners prepare to flee into the Italian countryside

Everyone has secrets

But years of heavy cases spark a burning recklessness in Ben

Patricia Highsmith The New York years, 1941-1950 Sarah Waters Virago FBA Paperback 2024 the wayward celebrity's Rolls RoyceBefore Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; before Carol became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith? Beginning in 1941 and encompassing Highsmith's adventurous twenties, 'The New York Years' is an intimate self portrait of a young artist, reading voraciously and honing her craft, intertwined with