This modest collection of John O'Loughlin's early literature is comprised of four one-act plays, two of which are straight dialogues, together with a couple of short stories which the author wrote at about the same time (1976), and which he believes to have a loosely poetic quality that deserve, for stylistic reasons, to be included with the plays, the title piece of which was intended to be a shamelessly facetious parody of Oscar Wilde, one of the authors he most admired as a youth.
John O'Loughlin is a London-based author who was born in the Republic of Ireland of an English mother of mixed Irish descent and grew up first in Hampshire and then in Surrey, where he attended a variety of state schools. Most of his adult life has been spent at different addresses in the London Borough of Haringey, north of the River Thames, to which he moved from Surrey in 1974, and all but a few of his books have been written there.