Annie Jackson's carefree young life changes in postwar Leeds when her widowed mother, Olga, marries Leonard Spode, a local businessman with political ambitions. To the outside world, he's a loving family man but behind closed doors he is violent and abusive.
- ISBN10 0749905670
- ISBN13 9780749905675
- Publish Date 24 May 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 December 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Piatkus Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 416
- Language English