Love in the Fast Lane

<p>Set in the artistic and literary Bohemian hey-day of Dublin in the 1930s and 1940s <i>Love in the Fast Lane</i> is the passionate memoir of a young aristocratic Irish woman's rebellion against convention and her awakening to love and her own sexuality. Former Christian Science Monitor columnist writer and noted Tarot card reader Countess Joan de Frenay paints a vivid portrait of a hidden era in Irish history (long before the 1960s) when Dublin served as a refuge for a bohemian pot-pourri of draft dodgers artists film-makers writers out-of-the-closet homosexuals drag queens occultists and proponents of utopian free love. Penniless but ever ingenious the intrepid author and her beloved Pekinese named Wang survive evictions near-starvation pre-Pill birth control in a staunchly Catholic country pneumonia gas meter readers and Brendan Behan drunkenly gate-crashing her parties as she searches relentlessly and uncompromisingly for truly requited love.</p>