Summary
Bored golden-boy Ernest Bliss, whose coffers overflow while his soul idles in neutral, accepts a sardonic wager from a Harley Street neurologist: survive half a year without his fortune, earn your own bread, and keep body and spirit tethered. Thus begins a picaresque drift through 1920 London’s invisible arteries—he scrubs pots in a Soho soup-kitchen, hawks sheet-music on rainy Strand corners, contracts pleurisy in a draught-ridden doss-house, falls in love with a factory lass whose eyes still sparkle after twelve-hour shifts. Each fresh humiliation peels away the gilt of privilege until only a trembling, luminous core remains. When the six-month bell tolls, Bliss must decide whether to reclaim the velvet cage of wealth or to trust the fragile new music he has learned to play on his own ramshackle instruments.
Synopsis
A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.
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