An immaculate portrait of adolescent love from one of our most beloved novelists.
'One of the last century's greatest woman writers' Guardian
When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned, she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home. There she encounters the attractive cad Eddie. To him, Portia is at once child and woman, and he fears her gushing love. To her, Eddie is the only reason to be alive. But when Eddie follows Portia to a sea-side resort, the flash of a cigarette lighter in a darkened cinema illuminates a stunning romantic betrayal - and sets in motion one of the most moving and desperate flights of the heart in modern literature.
- ISBN10 0140183000
- ISBN13 9780140183009
- Publish Date 25 October 1990 (first published December 1948)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 November 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English