![]() In particular he wants to discover what happened during the final year of the war when he was left in the care of The Moth. ![]() Though he is narrating his strange adolescence we come to realise that this book is not about him, but about his now-dead mother Rose and his attempts to piece together her life. Part two of Warlight sees Nathaniel, now aged 28, and working in a department of an unnamed branch of British Intelligence. And he has his first sexual experience with a girl who calls herself Agnes (we never learn her real name), in empty houses that have escaped bomb damage and are now up for sale. Through the Moth’s connections he begins working as a dishwasher at the Criterion hotel, mingling with the mainly immigrant staff, and bunking off school. The first half of the novel is essentially about Nathaniel’s education in life, when “cut loose by my parents, I was consuming everything around me.” ![]() Together they collect illegally imported greyhounds and smuggle them to racing tracks around the capital. Chief among the visitors is The Darter, a former boxer turned con artist, who ropes Nathaniel into his illegal nighttime expeditions through the streets and waterways of post-war London.
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