Between the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will he be taken from her by a lover, like Phoebe . . . or Ned, the wicked American?
'A highly distinctive and - ultimately - charitable novel' Financial Times
'Faultless' Guardian
'Her Characters are all meticulously impaled on the delicate pins of a wit that is as scrupulous as it is deadly' Observer
`A coldly funny book' Sunday Telegraph
`Highly distinctive . . . the critics who have recently insisted on Miss Pym's too long neglected gifts have not been wrong' Financial Times
- ISBN10 0060970723
- ISBN13 9780060970727
- Publish Date 1 January 1987 (first published 15 June 1978)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Collins
- Edition Perennial Library ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 208
- Language English