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A sparkling, revelatory new biography by the award-winning author of Michael Tippett celebrates Noel Coward as a pioneer in life, art and sexuality

Simply unforgettable ... one of the most beautiful and haunting books of recent times' - Alexander McCall Smith

A treasure of a book - whether you're a cat lover or not, don't pass this one up

Visionary twentieth century British composer Michael Tippett's storied and artistically pivotal life is presented in intimate detail across a century-spanning narrative featuring appearances from T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth and W. H. Auden.

The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the world. Phrases from Noël Coward's songs - "Mad About The Boy", "Mad Dogs and Englishman" - are forever lodged in the public consciousness. He was at one point the most highly paid author in the world. Yet some of his most striking and daring writing ...

A sparking, revelatory new biography by the award-winning author of Michael Tippett celebrates Noel Coward as a pioneer in life, art and sexuality

The first full-length biography of Michael Tippett (1905-1998), one of 20th-century Britain's great visionary composers.