It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind. Emma, his youngest daughter, twenty-seven years old afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in her affairs with married men. Esme, Julius' widow, still attractive at fifty-eight, but aimlessly lost in the routine of her perfect home. Felix, Esme's old lover, who left her when Julius died and who is still plagued by guilt for his action. And Dan, an outsider. Throughout a disastrous - and revelatory - weekend in Sussex, the influence of the dead Julius slowly emerges.
- ISBN10 0333626869
- ISBN13 9780333626863
- Publish Date 11 November 1994 (first published November 1965)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 August 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English