Fish, Blood and Bone

First edition. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 433. Grass green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; hunter green endpapers. Glossary to rear.

Signed by Author to title-page. With the 'Special Introductory Price' sticker intact to d/w.

Second novel from the author of the acclaimed Bombay Ice (1998). Longlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction. When American forensic photographer Claire Fleetwood inherits a large house in London, she imagines her own English idyll, until her best friend is brutally murdered and she realizes that her inheritance involves more than she bargained for. Murder – and love – across two centuries and two continents, in "a novel to savour and re-read" Natasha Cooper, The Times Literary Supplement.