Seventeen year old Henry Shaw learns of his mother's passionate affair when he stumbles across her email correspondence with her lover. His image of her is shattered. His younger sister Elvira is stuck in 1862 with her Civil War infantry regiment. Displaced from Vermont to Chicago, each member of the family finds their dreams hard
- ISBN10 0385601913
- ISBN13 9780385601917
- Publish Date 5 October 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Doubleday
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English