Now You See Me

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 281, [3]. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; sky-blue endpapers. Integral burgundy silk marker ribbon present.

Signed & dated by the author to title-page.

Longlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize. Lamb secretly inhabits the cellar of an elderly man for whom she cleans, her life a precarious balancing act, until she meets Doggo, a young criminal on the run. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Glaister has penned more than a dozen novels, and won the Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award for her first effort Honour Thy Father, 1990.

"A beautiful bombshell of a story, a painful, gorgeous romance about self-preservation, trust and loss. Like love, it is glorious. And it will break your heart." –Independent on Sunday