Fatal Friendship

Living in straitened circumstances, with his adored mother in 1930s Hove, Lord Alfred Douglas, by his own admission "once the most handsome man in England", is enduring a hand to mouth existence. His hopes of financial rescue rest on the American publication of his autobiography for which he asked an old friend, George Bernard Shaw, to write the preface. When Shaw refuses, and suggests it would be better if he, and others would refrain from "writing about Oscar", Douglas offers a strenuous defence of his turbulent and his troubled relationship with Wilde.