Firefly

On a secluded hillside in Jamaica lies Firefly, Noel 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: Noel'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.'A delightful read' Ian McKellen

Product details

• Authors: Janette Jenkins, Jenkins Janette
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.06.2014
• EAN: 9780099575047
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957504-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Jamaica, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1970 to c 1979