ICON BOOKS F7
FIRST PRINTING 1962
LONDON, U.K.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HOGARTH PRESS 1958
Juvenile (and adult) delinquents in a seedy seaside town. The delinquents include not only two young girls, Penny and Belle, but their evil and amoral mothers- and, most deeply involved of all, a local magistrate.
"A study in the fascinations of corruption."
-The Times
"Mr. Bloomfield produces great tension; he is a genuine storyteller."
-Daily Telegraph
"...few writers can make the every day and the seedy so real, so strange, so menacing."
-V.S. Naipaul
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