The protagonist's window-washing business ends with the arrest of his partner Ern Ollershaw and the protagonist falls in love with Veronica before becoming a joke writer in this author's novel about Charles Lumley.  
This author reflected on his diagnosis with a detached retina and unrequited love for the daughter of an insurance salesman in the chapter Love and the War of one work, and in another, Janet Finlayson screams that a plane crash in Lisbon was divine punishment against the families of the victims, who include the sister of Paul Waterford.  In addition to Sprightly Running and Young Shoulders, he wrote a novel in which the playing of trombone player Percy Brett inspires Jeremy, a piano player in a seedy club who deserted his father Alfred Coleman.  The protagonist's window-washing business ends with the arrest of his partner Ern Ollershaw and the protagonist falls in love with Veronica before becoming a joke writer in this author's novel about Charles Lumley.  FTP, name this author of Strike the Father Dead and Hurry on Down, a member of the Angry Young Men.
This author reflected on his diagnosis with a detached retina and unrequited love for the daughter of an insurance salesman in the chapter Love and the War of one work, and in another, Janet Finlayson screams that a plane crash in Lisbon was divine punishment against the families of the victims, who include the sister of Paul Waterford.  
John Wain