num_pages: 480
description: It's 1930, &amp; the streets of London are teeming with homeless men &amp; women. The bars &amp; cafes are full of seedy chancers &amp; girls. Through this moral wasteland strides Harold. For ladies poised on the edge of perdition, he is an unlikely Messiah. When he meets Barbara, who confounds his ethical certainties, his life is pitched into disarray.
language: English
title: Sunday at the Cross Bones
titlecomplete: Sunday at the Cross Bones
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 15
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Desmond Elliott Prize
publisher: Fourth Estate (GB)