The early years of poet P.J. Kavanaghamprsquos life ampndash which took him from a Butlinamprsquos Holiday Camp to Switzerland and Paris to a battlefield in Korea to Oxford and Barcelona and finally to Java ampndash made little sense to him until amplsquosomething extraordinary happenedamprsquo his meeting with Sally amplsquothe perfect strangeramprsquo.This tender funny and quite unsentimental record of the uniqueness of human love is as much a celebration of joy ampndash despite its abrupt and shocking conclusion ampndash as it is a poetamprsquos tribute of thanks.