Diana Sowman

Mike Upchat is an unsuccessful novelist who lives out of a railway station locker - he has the gift of the Gab and changes his life story every episode to impress different women - basically he reinvents himself to score.

What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?

The story of the love of writer and critic Willlam Hazlitt for the young daughter of his landlady in the 1820s.