Feckless, unwashed and charming, Trinity College law student Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield is an Irish-American with an English accent. Dreaming of dollars and ready women, he stumbles from public house to pawnbrokers, murmering delusive enticements in the ear of any girl who'll listen.

By the author of The Ginger Man . Joy Jones has always been brought up to behave like a lady. But being pursued by a host of oversexed suitors has left her patience wearing thin. With shotguns across her knees and under her pillow, she is trigger happy and no longer welcome in polite society.

The outrageous Darcy Dancer encounters old friends, escapes poverty-ridden Dublin in a sojourn to his delapidated estate Andromeda Park, and loses and pursues his adorable Leila.

Darcy Dancer grows to manhood in rural Ireland, finds himself temporarily the squire of Andromeda Park, takes his first steps in love, and travels across the country as a vagabond intent on regaining some of the glories to which he was born.

A reserved, lonely, and wealthy businessman falls in love with his beautiful, zany secretary.