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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Firefly
• Author: Janette Jenkins
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780099575047
• ISBN: 0099575043
• ID: 02489264
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 164 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 131 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. June 2014

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