Caprice

<p>Caprice, considered by some critics to be Ronald Firbank’s best novel, is based on his love of the theatre. An inveterate first-nighter he knew how things were managed, both front- and back-stage, and the story of Sarah Sinquier’s escape from a dull Deanery to sell the stolen family silver, lease a theatre, and plan a revival of Romeo and Juliet with herself as Juliet, is full of vivid personalities – from Harold Weathercock (cast as Romeo) and his close friend Noel Nice, to the long-sufferin...

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