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First edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 218. Hunter green cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket illustration by Ben Warner.

Signed by Author to title page.

Her twelfth novel. Anthropologist Stella Brentwood retires to Somerset and finds as subtle and elaborate a social system as any she has encountered in her professional career. 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. "Penelope Lively is blessed with the gift of being able to render matters of great import with a breath, a barely audible sigh, a touch." –New York Times Book Review