Publisher Description
Emilia Fox stars as troubled newlywed Bella Manningham in this new audio
production of the classic thriller Gaslight.
Despite having seemingly every advantage, including a doting husband, Bella
feels as though she is slowly being driven mad … but can the source of her
madness truly be her husband’s doing? What is the dark, terrible secret lurking
in his past, and where does he disappear to each evening? Left alone in her
dingy parlor with the dimming gaslight, is Bella really going insane? Does police
detective Rough hold all the answers? Will anybody be able to save her from her
darkened fate?
Other cast members include Sean Connolly as Jack, Helen Oakleigh as
Nancy, Rosemary Smith as Elizabeth, and Terry Molloy as Inspector Rough.
Written in 1938, and memorably filmed in 1944 with Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight is a classic thriller and tense
study of the power of good and evil.
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About Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962)
was an English playwright and novelist. He was born Anthony Walter Patrick
Hamilton in Hassocks, near Brighton, to writer parents. Due to his father’s
alcoholism and financial ineptitude, the family spent much of Hamilton’s childhood
living in boarding houses. His education was patchy, and ended just after his
fifteenth birthday when his mother withdrew him from Westminster School.
After a brief career as an actor, he became a novelist with the
publication of Monday Morning,
written when he was nineteen. His first real success came several years later with
his play Rope, later made into a film
by Alfred Hitchcock. His novel Hangover
Square, published in 1941, is
often judged his most accomplished work and still sells well today.
Hamilton drank excessively. He died of cirrhosis of the liver and kidney
failure in 1962.
About the Narrators
Rosemary Smith is an English
actress, writer, and voice-over artist. She has appeared in numerous films and
on many stages. She lives in London.
Sean Connolly is professor emeritus of Irish history and visiting research fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of five books, including Contested Island and Divided Kingdom, and was general editor of The Oxford Companion to Irish History. Born in Dublin, he lives in Belfast.