Brighton Palace Pier The Graham Greene novel "Brighton Rock" featured the Palace Pier. John Boulting's 1947 film adaptation helped established "low life" subculture in Brighton, and the climax of the film is set on it, where gangleader Pinkie Brown (played by Richard Attenborough) falls to his death. The 1953 B movie "Girl on a Pier" is set around the Palace Pier and also features the clash between holidaymakers and gangsters in Brighton. The Who's 1973 concept album "Quadrophenia" was inspired in part by band leader Pete Townshend spending a night underneath the pier in March 1964. It is a pivotal part of the
The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel) Bob's affair with Kristina, a Croatian refugee, had come to an end. The novel divided opinion: The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel) The Light of Day is a 2003 novel by English author Graham Swift, published seven years after his previous novel, the Booker Prize winner "Last Orders". The book is set in 1997 in Wimbledon, the narrator George preparing to visit the grave of Bob Nash in Putney Vale Cemetery on the two year anniversary of his death, and then to visit Sarah who was convicted of his murder and with whom George has fallen in love. George