The Green Shutters

<p><i>Sin and green shutters: both entailed lots of unexpected consequences that weren’t easy to see at first glance . . .</i></p><p>In the autumn years of his illustrious career, ‘The Great’ Emile Maugin, a celebrated actor, receives devastating news: he does not have long left to live. Hounded by rage, alcoholism and the memories of his fractured childhood in the Vendée marshes, he haunts the stage doors and dimly-lit bars of pre-war Paris. Yet, faintly visible on