As a film-maker, Val Lewton is recognised as one of greatest talents Hollywood has seen. Best remembered for his magnificent horror films, most famously Cat People, Lewton�s cult of fans has included everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Martin Scorsese. Before movies, however, Lewton was a prolific novelist, blasting out books for the 1930s pulp market. This racy, fantastically readable noir-tinged tale was his favourite of his own books. Set in 1931, No Bed of Her Own is the story of Rose Mahoney, a peppy, hard-boiled New York blonde who loses job and home in the Depression. Cast alone into the dark underbelly of the city, she must try to survive a world of decadence, hypocrisy and greed with only her wits to protect her. First published in 1932 � the first of the Depression novels - the book has been unavailable for over half a century. No Bed of Her Own was a bestseller in its day, and a sensation thanks to its astonishingly liberal sexual attitudes. When the Paramount film studio snapped up rights to film the book, they discovered they couldn�t get its taboo themes past the censors. On publication in Germany, it was burned under Hitler�s orders. The novel�s sexual frankness remains surprising. But so, too, do its pace, humour and grit, and the cinematic eye and unexpected mind of its author. A strange and vivid snapshot of its era, it is one of the great rediscoveries of the year.

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"Val Lewton is one of the great, relatively unsung heroes of film history, and the wonderfully inventive, beautifully poetic and deeply unsettling films he made as a producer at RKO are some of the greatest treasures we have. For film lovers, the reissue of Lewton s Depression-era novel No Bed of Her Own, written before Lewton had gotten a foothold in the film industry, is a major event. It also happens to be a sharp, incisive novel of the Depression, as carefully detailed as Lewton s films" ~ Martin Scorsese

Winter 1931. New York is in the grip of the Depression. When Rose Mahoney loses her typing job, the peppy, hardboiled blonde believes she will quickly find another. But soon, meagre savings dwindling, she is homeless, cast alone into the underbelly of the cold, dark city...

Val Lewton is remembered for his magnificent 1940s horror films, most famously Cat People, but before movies, Lewton was a prolific novelist. First published in 1932 and unavailable for over half a century, this racy, fantastically readable pulp-noir offers a strange and vivid snapshot of its era as it follows Rose s attempts to survive a world of despair, decadence, hypocrisy and greed, with only her wits to protect her.

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