In 1904, at the age of six, Polly goes to live with her two holy aunts. The house is so close to the sea it seems to toss like a ship, and so isolated, Polly might be marooned on an island. There she lives for 81 years, while the century rages around her and Victorian order becomes nuclear dread.
- ISBN10 0689117922
- ISBN13 9780689117923
- Publish Date 1 December 1986 (first published May 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Atheneum Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English