Isolates in his blitz-battered Regent´s Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, ´H.G.´ to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books and women. Charting his unpromising start as a draper´s assistant to his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination, his immersion in socialist politics and his belief in and practice of free love.
