When Elizabeth opened the letter from Australia, mailed three weeks before, she was wondering who that George who had sent it could be. She was even more surprised by its content.

This is a collection of novellas (The Letter, The Painter, Desperate for Love, Twist of Fate, The Teacher) whose plot is mainly set in London.

Marc Thirot is an English teacher at Charles Péguy High School and the University for Senior Citizens in Orléans, France. He was a French assistant at Feltham School, in London, in 1980-1981. He has been fond of this city, where a large part of the novellas is set, ever since that time. He has been teaching English for about forty years.