Advance Galley Proof. 8vo. 139 pp. Stiff blue wraps, printed in cream and black, complete with wrap-around band.
Now eighteen and about to leave her English boarding school, convalescing Flora Baxter remembers a time when she was nine and living as an 'outsider' in North Borneo. The author mines her far-flung childhood, as a daughter of the British Empire with a father in the Colonial Service, to sketch in the background of the book. 7 years and up. "Geras' writing is surefooted and subtly crafted, and this is an intelligent, sensitive piece of fiction about poignant emotions." –The Bookseller