Faith Fox. A Novel.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 312. Publisher's hunter green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; butter yellow end papers.

Signed by Author to title-page.

A motherless grandchild must be packed off to her father's peculiar family in the North – 'the very strangest people you ever saw my dear' – after her unconventional grandmother refuses to acknowledge her. A comedy of manners set amidst high society and low in early '90s Britain. Twice-winner of the Whitbread Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. "Brilliant on sex, brilliant on bereavement and death, brilliant on God, brilliant on dottiness." –A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard