Winner of PEN/Ackerley Prize 2012.

'Brilliant and haunting' -- Alan Hollinghurst Guardian 'Quirky, quixotic and glorious fun' -- Sebastian Shakespeare Tatler 'Vivid and highly pleasurable.' -- Toby Lichtig The Times Literary Supplement 'Magical, original and an unforgettable read' -- Richard Canning Independent 'Profundity, wit and joyful naughtiness' -- Christopher Silvester Daily Express 'A masterpiece of refined subversion' -- Stephen Bayley Financial Times 'Fallowell is a mischievous mixture of pagan saybarite and erudite aesthete' The Oldie 'A wonderful feat of writing and insight into our merciless, often beautiful world' -- Anthony Page, film and theatre director 'A book of the momentarily famous yet now often forgotten, this is an absorbing look into what happens when they leave the spotlight. It's poignant and often touching. This book will stay with you long after you have finished it.' -- Hannah Britt Daily Express 'Pick of the Paperbacks'

DUNCAN FALLOWELL is a novelist, travel writer and critic, whose best-known books include April Ashley's Odyssey, the biography of a transsexual, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg and Twentieth-Century Characters. He lives in London.