Commencing Our Descent

First edition. 8vo. 258pp. Black cloth, lettered in silver to spine; navy blue endpapers.

Signed by Author to title page.

Shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Book of the Year. Author's fifth novel follows the fortunes of Sadie Summerfield as she embarks on an affair. A graduate of the MA creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, Dunn was Director of the MA in Novel Writing at the University of Manchester, 1999–2005. "It takes a good deal of artistry to create the illusion of real life, and she has managed something more difficult still, which is to show us how strange real life can be." –The Times