Escape Path Lighting

de Newton, John

"When Arthur Bardruin, fugitive poet, washes up on Marigold Ingle's beach, he dares to imagine he may be safe from the gaze of the Continence Police. With Marigold and her parrot, Chuck, he finds sanctuary. But the reach of aesthetic decorum is long. Meanwhile Juanita Diaz, Laconian analyst, has problems with dissolute musician Frank Hortune, who has problems with his mother and a glad eye for Juanita's lover"--Back cover.