Across the Nightingale Floor

Limited Edition Proof Copy. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 332. Green printed wraps. No. 55 out of a limited issue of 100.

The first book of fiction ever to be issued simultaneously on Macmillan's adults' and children's lists. Originally published earlier the same year by Hodder Headline Australia, Sydney.

Named a New York Times 'Notable Book' in 2002. Book one in the five-part "Tales of the Otori" sequence, set in a fictional island nation resembling feudal Japan. A story of treachery, political intrigue, and the intensity of first love. By the British-born Australian author Gillian Rubinstein, published under the pseudonym, Lian Hearn. "The most compelling novel to have been published this year." –The Times (London)