This novel is a tragi-comedy about Betty, a working mother, and her hard-drinking husband, unintelligent lover, decrepit employer, fortune-telling friend and two smart-mouthed children. Angela Owens has also written "Gentlemen of the West" and "Birds in the Wilderness".
- ISBN10 0349106215
- ISBN13 9780349106212
- Publish Date 7 December 1995 (first published 19 May 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Abacus
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 160
- Language English