Welcome to St Clouds, an exclusive public school where the boys prefer rouge to rugger and bondage to bunsen burners. Here, courtesy of new boy Basil Leaf and the postcards he writes to his long-suffering father, youll meet the criminally pretty Gemini Tarqquogan, who paints his nails scarlet and wears frocks and feathers; Courtney Durham, who runs up curtains on his sewing machine; Hugo Bletchworth, keen on leatherwear and flagellation; Father Absolute, Basils gin-swilling Father Confessor; Rory OBrien, St Clouds rugger coach and Courtney Durhams close companion.Then there are Basils camp followers, so to speak: Nipper Thompson, a spirited jockey sacked by his guvnor for wearing earrings at the morning gallop; Maurice Le Vere, a former ballet dancer and owner of The Last Faerie, notorious watering hole; Sir Geoffrey Grassington, a local magistrate and the proprietor of a palace of pleasure, wherein. Basil and his chums bring comfort to wealthy gentlemen of unusual tastes, until the men from MI5 move in...