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First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 406, [2, blank]. Cream cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; grey endpapers. With publisher's 'Great Books, Smart Price' sticker to front panel of dustwrapper. Stamped "Proof/Damaged" to f.f.e.p., else Fine.

Named as one of the Best Five Fiction Books of the Year 2005 by The New York Times. A coming-of-age story set at an elite co-ed boarding school in late 1980s Massachusetts. Author's debut novel, which went through many printings after an initial print run of 13,000 copies. Ms Sittenfeld is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. "Sittenfeld's dialogue is so convincing that one wonders if she didn't wear a wire under her hockey kilt." –New York Times Review of Books