Winifred Belair is one of the returnees who gossip over drinks on the verandahs of the
Caribbean island of St Caesare. Fred is good-looking still and eligible, but her friends
warn her about the visit from Barbados of the Rev Alex Taylor - 'looking for a soul-mate to
help him with the Good Works. And save the world.' Her other two suitors, typically for
Markham, are figments of Pewter Stapleton's elaborately imagined fantasy.
Readers of E. A. Markham's inimitable stories will not be surprised that this linked collection
encompasses cricket, boxing and world politics as well as matrimony in later life; or that
Pewter's travels take him to Boston, Massachussetts; Trinity College, Dublin; London,
Sheffield; and the atmospheric streets of Paris. They will be pleased to be reminded of the
warmth, wit and wisdom of a much-missed unclassifiable writer.
- ISBN10 0955647630
- ISBN13 9780955647635
- Publish Date 1 January 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 February 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Profile Books Ltd
- Imprint Tindal Street Press
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English