It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to
London to make his fortune. Through his wanton ambition, a megalomania
surfaces that is unrelieved by his insensitive attempts at friendship
and romance. Yet is he all bad, or are the true villains the
establishment figures who he tricks and deceives? And, ultimately, does
it matter?
Gray's twist on the follies of religion, the media and the imperial
British centre is as relevant now as ever.