Sleep It Off Lady

Sixteen tales, uncannily and vividly drawn together like the fragments of a single life - childhood innocence destroyed under a louring Caribbean sky; youthful disenchantment with the London stage life of the 1910s; brief encounters in the brittle gaiety of a Parisian nightclub and in London during the Blitz; followed by the slow, inevitable descent into old age and loneliness; and after death, the return.