Gulliver Quick begins with the title character’s death. Immediately thereafter, five women present at the scene claim to be the sole murderer, thus establishing the exciting backdrop to a detailed chronological account of Quick’s colorful, turbulent life as a prominent artist whose appetites are strong, whose achievements are great, and whose adventures, carefully tied to actual 20th-century events, span four centuries.
Maureen Earl, the daughter of an RAF pilot and a French mother, was born in Cairo and educated throughout the world, and worked as a journalist with an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.