Twice Brightly
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 First edition | |
| Author | Harry Secombe |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Comic novel |
| Publisher | Robson Books |
Publication date | 1974 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 224 pp |
| ISBN | 0-903895-23-4 |
| OCLC | 3074314 |
| 823/.9/14 | |
| LC Class | PZ4.S4448 Tw PR6069.E25 |
Twice Brightly is a comic novel by Harry Secombe, fictionalising his experiences as a recently demobbed Welsh serviceman and army comic returning from the battlefields of North Africa and Italy and struggling to make a living in the British Variety Theatres after the Second World War. The lead character is a Welsh comic called Larry Gower, Secombe's alter ego. The title is a pun on the phrase "twice nightly". Upon release in 1974 the book was the first novel of his to be published.[1]
For young servicemen who had spent six years fighting fascism, postwar Britain was a drab, oppressive place. For a young and untried army comic keen on the Marx brothers and Jimmy Cagney, a Yorkshire Variety theatre in February was a vision of Hell itself.
