In Love with Hell is a masterful insider's account of how alcohol ruined and sustained the careers of eleven writers' Jim Crace, New Statesman'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink' D. J. Taylor'Wonderfully perceptive biographies of 11 novelists and poets' Nick CohenIn this lucid and empathetic exploration of drink in the lives and work of writers, award-winning novelist and poet William Palmer details the effect that heavy drinking had on writers, how they lived with it - and were sometimes destroyed by it - and how they described the whole private and social world of the drinker in their work.Featuring writers from Patrick Hamilton to Jean Rhys, Dylan Thomas to Elizabeth Bishop, Anthony Burgess to Richard Yates - In Love with Hell is a sensitive and revealing deep dive into each writer's relationship with drinking and the effect it had on their creativity and private lives.'A beautifully written account . . . with fine descriptions of the writers, their work and the times they lived in' Piers Paul Read