From the First Edition Dust-Jacket: Tom Dekker is a civilised civil servant who, to the despair of his boss, his friends and his psychiatrist, likes to float through life on just the right amount of gin. Then he meets Kate, a fascinating but superior girl who is trying to write plays, and at once his life is changed. Uncertain of herself and, still more of him, Kate announces that she is going to the country, but will not say where or with whom. She challenges him to find her. And so this is the story of a pursuit, in which Mr Priestley's richly comic invention is at the service of the qualities of the heart and the imagination.