A moving, funny and masterful novel about the life of H.G. Wells - writer, thinker, lover and man of genius.

A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS.;A MAN OF PASSION.;A MAN OF THE FUTURE.;;Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent’s Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, ‘H.G.’ to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Charting his unpromising start as a draper’s assistant to his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination, his immersion in socialist politics and his belief in and practice of free love, A Man of Parts is an astonishing novel of passion, ambition and controversy.