Chapter 17: The World’s Most Exclusive Hairdresser
Chapter 18: Another Moriarty Original
Chapter 21: Make Me a Willow Cabin at Your Gate
Chapter 22: The Cardinal Rule (A Moment of Silence, Please, for Freddie)
Chapter 26: Breakfast at Graff
Chapter 27: Professional Massagers of the Female Ego at Large (Part One)
Chapter 28: Professional Massagers of the Female Ego at Large (Part Two)
Chapter 31: Professional Massagers of the Female Ego at Large (Part Three)
Chapter 35: Love According to Flick
Chapter 36: The History of the Cyrano (Another Digression)
Chapter 38: The Perfect Plan (Hughie’s Version)
Chapter 44: Into the Care of Mr Lewis
Chapter 45: International Polo Player
Chapter 48: The Next Generation
Chapter 50: Meant for Better Things
Chapter 57: Two for the Price of One
Chapter 63: A Cold November Evening
The ad appeared in the Stage in the second week of September, when the Edinburgh Festival was officially over and real life made its unpleasant appearance again in the collective consciousness of the large number of unemployed young actors who populate the London area.
It read:
Unique situation available for an attractive, well-mannered, morally flexible young man. Hours irregular. Pay generous. Discretion a must.
Please send photo and brief romantic history to:
Valentine Charles
111 Half Moon Street
Mayfair, London
Hughie Armstrong Venables-Smythe was sitting at his usual table, next to the window in Jack’s Café, armed with a pen he’d nicked from the waitress, a strong cup of builder’s tea and his mobile phone, which was running out of credit. Outside, the