Performances by Ralph Richardson, John Betjeman, John Gielgud, T.S. Eliot, Richard Burton and Robert Donat of some of Keats', Betjeman's, Shakespeare's, T.S. Eliot's, Dylan Thomas's and many more poets.
The third novel in Annie Murray's "Birmingham" series. While Genie's father is away fighting in World War II, her mother has a ruinous affair which leaves her pregnant; Genie's little brother leaves, never to return; while Genie herself meets a man who then disappears to war.