Kitty and Virgil

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 280. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

Signed by Author to title page.

By turns, tragic and funny, the arc of a relationship between a middle-aged Englishwoman and a dissident Romanian poet, spanning 1930s Romania to 1950s Britain. Celebrated as a keen observer of family relationships and social manners in his fiction with his characters frequently at odds with society, Bailey often uses grim humour to mask the ultimate bleakness of life. By the Booker-shortlisted author of Gabriel's Lament. "Unquestionably the book of the year." –Sunday Times