Every once in a while, circumstance traps a group of people in a pattern of tragedy and violence from which they struggle vainly to fight free. Thus it was with the Master of Cock Shield Farm, Angus McBain, a man too easily tempted to sin, and those in and around his household.
- ISBN10 0708844138
- ISBN13 9780708844137
- Publish Date 7 December 1989 (first published 15 May 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 December 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Time Warner Paperbacks
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 285
- Language English