In 1954 the novelist Evelyn Waugh disembarked from England on a cruise ship bound for Ceylon but after only a week jumped ship to continue by land and air. His reasons are revealed in this quasi-autobiographical novel in which Mr Pinfold, a corpulent middle aged English author, finds the tranquillity of a cruise shattered by the intrusion of an unseen.castofvoices, musical bands, and a dog. Unable to distinguish these auditory hallucinations from reality he flees the ship, fearing for his life, and returns home to his long suffering wife.
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