A Perfect Arrangement

First UK edition. Sm. 8vo. Pp. [x], 301, [1]. Blue cloth, lettered in silver to spine; mauve endpapers. Jacket photograph by Scott Wishart.

Toning to textblock edges, light fading to spine over-spilling by a thin strip into rear panel of dustwrapper, else Fine.

Author's second novel. A New York Times Notable Book. Winner of the 1999 Orange Prize for Fiction for her literary debut, A Crime in the Neighbourhood. A two-career couple in the Boston suburbs hires a seemingly 'perfect' live-in nanny, only to begin nursing misgivings about the growing attachment between her and their troubled offspring. "A probing, intelligent venture into family life today." –The New York Times