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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781844083183

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‘Marvellous . . . Funny, subtle, sympathetic’ OBSERVER

‘One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists’ CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN

Bawden’s contemporary truths, laced with a dark humor, fit-and pinch’ KIRKUS REVIEWS

Fanny Pye’s London house, bought for a song many years earlier, is now worth a small fortune. When she intervenes in a street brawl and is hospitalised, her children tactfully suggest that she move to the suburbs, coincidently releasing some useful family money. Fanny has different views about inheritance and property and is anyway more concerned that she cannot properly remember the events of that night which ended in the death of a stranger. Then, as her amnesia clears, she is overwhelmed by a terrible sense of danger.

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One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists
Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian
As in Walking Naked (1981) and Circles of Deceit, Bawden's contemporary truths, laced with a dark humor, fit-and pinch
Kirkus Reviews
This funny, vicious, little novel is written not just for women, but for old women of all ages
Los Angeles Times
Marvellous . . . Funny, subtle, sympathetic
OBSERVER
Nina Bawden's readers should be numbered like the sands of the sea . . . This is a wonderfully satisfying novel, wise, tolerant, witty
Guardian
Nina Bawden's readers should be numbered like the sands of the sea . . . This is a wonderfully satisfying novel, wise, tolerant, witty
GUARDIAN
Sharply observed and drawn with precision, Fanny's troubles and their eventual resolution make a compelling read
Publishers Weekly
One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists
CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN
Marvellous . . . Funny, subtle, sympathetic
Observer