First edition. 8vo. Pp. 238, [2 (blank)]. Bottle green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; cream endpapers.
Signed by Author to title page. Toning to textblock edges, else Fine.
Acclaimed children's author's rare foray into adult fiction. An examination of the tangled web of familial relationships, as an ideal citizen's compartmentalized lives are set to collide. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Fine was awarded an OBE in 2003. "A streamlined, ruthless stripped-down psychological family romance, with enough plot twists and character revelations to fuel a book three times as long." –Time Out