128pp. Brown cloth-covered boards; red illustration on front, red titles on front and spine. 8vo. Bumped corners and spine ends. Illustrative endpapers, free endpapers tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Bleak novel set in the ruined years following World War II, following the life of the main character Laura, as her teenage life stumbles from a miserable and abusive home to a series of senseless robberies and killings with an ex-solider.
