First edition, first printing. 200pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Very lightly bumped spine ends. Foxing to prelim pages. Signed and inscribed by author on title page 'To Penny, with my love. March 22nd. 1995'. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 8vo.A raw, direct and passionate novel centred on the tensions that undermine families; it is also a story of reconciliation and the power of the past to hurt and to heal.