''None but the Lonely Heart'' is a 1943 novel by the British writer

Richard Llewellyn Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (; 8 December 1906 – 30 November 1983), known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn ( , ), was an English-born novelist of Welsh descent, who is best remembered for his 1939 novel ''How Green Was My Valle ...

. It focuses on the life of Ernie Motts, who narrates the story from his own perspective, a wide boy from

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. It was published four years after Llewellyn's best-known work, the Welsh-set ''

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''.

Film adaptation

In 1944 it was made into a film of the same title by the

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studio

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. Directed by Clifford Odets it starred

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as Ernie Mott along with

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and June Duprez. It was noted for its unusual subject matter, as most Hollywood films of the period portrayed Britain in a much more positive light.Glance p.163-64

References

Bibliography

* Glancy, Mark. ''When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood 'British' Film 1939-1945''. Manchester University Press, 1999. * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. ] 1943 British novels Novels set in London British novels adapted into films Novels by Richard Llewellyn Michael Joseph books {{1940s-novel-stub