This is a fascinating biography of a charismatic show-business legend.
Born in Grenada in 1900, and having been the lover and protege of Cole Porter in the Paris of the early 1920s, Leslie Hutchinson, known universally as Hutch, came to London in 1926. Immaculate in his white tie and tails, Hutch had tremendous sex appeal and charm, and he soon became a successful cabaret artist, topping the bills in variety and on radio. His love-life was rich and varied. Yet for all the glamour, Hutch was a profoundly insecure man in thrall to insatiable appetites for sex, drink, gambling and social status which precipitated his fall from stardom in the late 1960s.
