It is 1900 and Christie Wheeler's life as the wife of a poor tobacco farmer is about to change dramatically with the birth of quintuplets. As the quins become celebrities and Christie's own life the centre of a grotesque media event, she sets out on a voyage of self-discovery.
- ISBN10 0701159030
- ISBN13 9780701159030
- Publish Date 7 October 1993 (first published 1 September 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 454
- Language English