A moving, funny and masterful novel about the life of H.G. Wells - writer, thinker, lover and man of genius. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Unfolding this astonishing story, David Lodge depicts a man as contradictory as he was talented: a socialist who enjoyed his affluence, a feminist womaniser, sensual yet incurably romantic, irresistible and exasperating by turns, but always vitally human.