Iphigenia, a seventeen-stone nightclub singer and prostitute reaching her 80th birthday looks back on her long life and love affair with Sir Hilary Donovan and her friendship with his wife. They each bore a child late in life and these two grew up and married to the distress of Sir Hilary. The author has also written "The Governess", "The Done Thing" and "The Highly Flavoured Ladies".
- ISBN10 0552993859
- ISBN13 9780552993852
- Publish Date 23 February 1990 (first published 1 February 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 January 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Black Swan
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English