A major new work by the bestselling author of A Vicious Circle, on a larger scale and more serious than her previous fiction, but with her characteristic satirical edge and page-turningly suspenseful plotting. Benedick Hunter is a failure. A divorced father and unemployed actor sunk in self-pity, his life takes a new direction when he finds a book of his dead mother's fairy-tales in which real people and events from a tragic past seem to be depicted. Hunter embarks on a bizarre and darkly comic quest which takes him and his small son Cosmo to America -- to the heart of parenthood, manic depression, fairy-tales and love.
- ISBN10 1857027000
- ISBN13 9781857027006
- Publish Date 2 July 2001 (first published 3 August 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 December 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk