Oliver Soden divides his life – or “lives” – of Noël Coward into nine parts: “Each section is loosely structured as one of the varied genres in which he wrote: plays, musicals, revues, screenplays, short stories.” Some passages are in dialogue, and he ends with a section written as a play script, which he sees as “a natural conclusion to an enacted life, which was conducted either side of a disconcertingly permeable barrier between theatre and reality”.
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