Description

Charles Arrowby, top light of England's theatrical collection, retires from glistening London to an isolated house by the ocean. He plans to create a memoir about his wonderful romance with Clement Makin, his coach, both professionally and privately, and entertain herself with Lizzie, an actor he's put along for several years. None of his ideas work-out, and his memoir grows right into a captivating chronicle of the strange events and unforeseen guests-some true, some spectral-that interrupt his globe and move his outsized ego to its very core.