The half of my kingdom

the long version

Rex Anderson, the miracle-healer whose sensational career was outlined in the author's previous book Wonder-Worker, is the subject of this unusual story. His many-sided character is mirrored in the strange and varied experiences into which he is drawn after being toppled from the giddy heights of success. Keen insight into an extensive range of human psychology is displayed in the description of the new and often alien worlds he enters, becoming familiar with extremes of sorrow and joy, and the dull, unspectacular plodding in between. A package tour on the Continent, a hectic affair with a degenerate socialite, a Soho restaurant run by a Greek family, and his poignant relationship with a girl half gipsy, half aristocract, through whom he learns the meaning of love.