# Firefly

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- Book: [Firefly](https://www.bookquiver.com/janette-jenkins/firefly) ([Firefly.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/janette-jenkins/firefly.md))
- Authors: [Janette Jenkins](https://www.bookquiver.com/janette-jenkins)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9957-504-7
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2014-06-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

On a secluded hillside in Jamaica lies Firefly, Noël Coward’s peaceful retreat. Here, between sundowners and sunsets, brandies and cigarettes, the seventy-one-year-old Coward whiles away his days – a comforting, frustrating pattern of unwanted breakfasts, reluctant walks, graceless dips in the pool – in the company of his manservant Patrice. Both of them dream of a London that is long-gone or imagined: Noël’s peopled with glamorous friends – Redgrave, Olivier, O’Toole – and Patrice’s a picture-postcard vision of elegance and opportunity. Set over a series of summer days in the early 1970s, Firefly flits through Coward’s dreams and memories, his successes and regrets, against a sultry, seductive backdrop of blue skies and glistening water. 'A delightful read' Ian McKellen