Love From Everybody
Publishing History
1959 London, Hutchinson1959 London, Digit, as “Don’t Bother to Knock”
Filmed in 1961 by Associated British Films as "Don’t Bother to Knock"
Reviews
“Mr. Hanley has a remarkable facility in inventing dialogue: his characters talk incessantly but, if their talk is all very similar, it has the virtue of being often very funny …This first novel shows an unfailing zest.”The Scotsman
“Some acutely observed bits of humour.”The Glasgow Herald
“Designed to entertain.”The New Statesman “... amusing, light-hearted, and full of good gags and wisecracks. It’s good fun.”Scotland Magazine
“Some acutely observed bits of humour.”The Glasgow Herald
“Designed to entertain.”The New Statesman “... amusing, light-hearted, and full of good gags and wisecracks. It’s good fun.”Scotland Magazine
Jacket Copy
The author of Dancing in the Streets — the story of scruffy, clanking lusty Glasgow which drew enthusiastic praise from even the august critics in far-off London (“The man’s tremendous”), said one of them — has now moved East to Edinburgh. But to Edinburgh of Festival-time and to the story of Bill Sanquhar, travel agent, who was always filled with a wild desire in the later evenings of his Continental tours to present each glamorous wench he met with the key to his flat. And he met plenty of glamorous wenches in his travels.
But even if this friendly mannerism did not turn him into a Great Lover, it certainly brought him a lot of complications that can upset the pattern of life for a Great Lover. For Edinburgh becomes a very international city at Festival-time. As Bill discovered soon enough.
But even if this friendly mannerism did not turn him into a Great Lover, it certainly brought him a lot of complications that can upset the pattern of life for a Great Lover. For Edinburgh becomes a very international city at Festival-time. As Bill discovered soon enough.