Octavo green cloth gilt spine title (unevenly sunned and faded/tips slightly rubbed) 311pp very clean and crisp except that endpaper pastedowns have a show through from the cloth turn-ins - ie around the edge of the pastedowns and the endpapers show very slight pale foxing. Text entirely white with no writing inside and looks unread. An early work about an unfrocked priest in France which she re-wrote in 1990. This is the first edition as originally written by the budding novelist.