Poor Angus centres round a struggling painter, Angus McAllister, who
has returned to the seemingly idyllic Hebridean island of his birth in
the hope that it will inspire him to create his masterpiece. His privacy
is invaded by Janet, a visitor with relatives on the island, who has
decided that an affair with an artist would be the simplest way to
incense and recapture her husband, a golf-fanatic devoid of
imagination.
So begins an irresistible story, both comic and serious which, with
characteristic ironic wit explores the attitudes of men and women to sex
and relationships in general, and which focuses on the psychology of the
artist and the justification, if any, for art