Shows the author as an acute observer of life in a provincial cathedral city and a sharp critic of the clerical establishment, moved by the predicament of women - tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their imaginations in the illusions of romance.
- ISBN10 1857541014
- ISBN13 9781857541014
- Publish Date 25 August 1994 (first published 15 February 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 July 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English