Women in the background

A comic novel about life in the modern world. Derek Pettyfer is rich and famous. He has become the toast of the London stage and a top-rating television performer, after an uneventful upbringing in Australia. From an elegant home and a collection of Roman glass Derek's life begins to unravel; helped along by sadistic dentists, fetishistic secretaries and the beautiful people who infest great cities. From there it is all downhill. The author has also written 'The Traveller's Tool', The Life and Death of Sandy Stone', and has written and performed in 12 one-man plays. He is also the subject of two critical and biographical studies.