Julian Maclaren-Ross's 1947 novel, , is a defiantly unedifying English comedy about a vacuum-cleaner salesman trying to keep his chin up in the gloom of prewar Brighton.Its not-quite-forgotten (if never-exactly-acclaimed) author has been on my radar ever since I learned that he was the model for the bohemian novelist character X. Trapnel in Anthony Powell's of English life happened to be a significant inspiration for a project of my own-a novel about the seventies London I grew up in, an excerpt of which Of Love and Hunger A Dance to the Music of Time .
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