The elderly half-forgotten author Maurice Kingsley uses his beautiful fashion model niece Jessica's life as a model for a book, embroidering it with his own quirky insights into a surprise best-seller, a modern parable for a wasted life that becomes a candidate for the Booker Prize. Dennis Potter is author of "The Singing Detective" written for television. He has also written a previous novel, "Ticket to Ride".
- ISBN10 0571152023
- ISBN13 9780571152025
- Publish Date 7 November 1988 (first published 28 September 1987)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 17 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 184
- Language English