Heat Wave

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 214, [1]. Navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine.

Signed by Author to title page.

A mother watches anxiously as her daughter repeats the same marriage pattern she had had with her philandering husband. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize with her first two novels for adults, The Road to Lichfield (1977) and According to Mark (1984), Lively then won it for Moon Tiger in 1987. "You don't want to part company with these characters, who, time and again, elicit a sensation of intense familiarity." –The New Yorker