A novel by the author of "The Vacillations of Poppy Carew".
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"I loved it for its extraordinary combination of despair and wild black humour" (Julia Blackburn)
"Great verve and inventiveness" (Times Literary Supplement)
"A virtuoso performance of guileful plotting, deft characterisation and malicious wit" (The Times)
"Quriky, sexy and deeply fascinating" (Sheila Hancock)
Her celebrated first novel
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