There is a passage in David Gaffney’s 2022 novel that brings to mind Norma Desmond, the faded movie star in Billy Wilder’s Hollywood noir Sunset Boulevard. Daniel Quinn, a twenty-six year old obsessed with Out of the Dark, a forgotten 1960s British B-picture, observes its washed-up star Mathilde Pelletier from a door in her West Midlands flat:
I went to …
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