Florence Lancaster, a fading London beauty, is having an affair with Tom Veryan, a young man barely older than her son Nicky. Nicky, a nervy musician, comes home from Paris engaged to Bunty Mainwaring, who soon falls for Tom. Over a weekend house party the family’s polished brittleness cracks, ending in a famous bedroom confrontation between mother and son.
The play that made Coward a star at twenty-four, shocking in its day for its frankness about drugs and desire. Download the free EPUB.