A tantalising and erudite novel from an author with a huge reputation.
"I'm embarrassed to say this, James," he murmured, "but you're probably going to write my life. I know how presumptuous it sounds - and vain, and so on - but I really do think that's what you will end up doing. I've had rather an exotic life, actually, and I don't believe you'll be bored."
A chance encounter in a local store leads a writer to undertake to record the life of his neighbour, the enigmatic Raymond Jerningham Jebb; "Jayjay" to his friends, self-styled imposter and lover. From the terrace of his Tuscan villa Jayjay offers him a biographer's dream: a no-holds-barred account of a life lived in pursuit of the thrill of endless possibility.
