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On a secluded hillside in Jamaica lies Firefly, Noël Coward’s peaceful retreat. Here, between sundowners and sunsets, brandies and cigarettes, the seventy-one-year-old Coward whiles away his days – a comforting, frustrating pattern of unwanted breakfasts, reluctant walks, graceless dips in the pool – in the company of his manservant Patrice. Both of them dream of a London that is long-gone or imagined: Noël’s peopled with glamorous friends – Redgrave, Olivier, O’Toole – and Patrice’s a picture-postcard vision of elegance and opportunity.
Set over a series of summer days in the early 1970s, Firefly flits through Coward’s dreams and memories, his successes and regrets, against a sultry, seductive backdrop of blue skies and glistening water. Colourful and contemplative, this is a moving and poignant portrait of old age and friendship, and a life well lived.
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"Beautiful... This moving novel pays tribute to a great talent as the curtain comes down, in prose that lingers like the echo of a good bay-side martini" Independent "What a lovely, clever book! Beautiful, wistful, just right" Julian Clary "Perfectly formed" -- Mark Sanderson Sunday Telegraph "This elegant novel imagines the final weeks of Noel Coward after he has retired...Jenkins' Coward is clever and cantankerous to the end" New Yorker "Beautifully observed" New York Times
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A short, sparkling novel about the twilight years of Noël Coward’s life, by the author of Angel of Brooklyn.
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- PublisherISIS Large Print Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0753192381
- ISBN 13 9780753192382
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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