At the
beginning of "," the August bank holiday is mentioned as the time when Trevor or
"T" joins the gang. The August bank holiday in London is at the end of August, that
places the setting in late summer. It is some years after the Blitz, so it is approximately the
1950s. The gang lives in Wormsley, a fictionalized area that could be a section of London,
Buckinghamsire, Essex, or Hertfordshire, since the Wormsley Common Underground Station is
mentioned, and the subway runs in the aforementioned locations.
The area in
which Old Misery and the boys live must have been a nice neighborhood at one time, given that
the house in which Old Misery lives was designed by the famed British architect Sir Christopher
Wren. The area, however, is no longer upscale, as evidenced by the working-class speech of the
boys and the proximity of Old Misery's house to a parking lot. Moreover, many of the neighboring
houses have been completely destroyed or heavily damaged by The Blitz.
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