HAPPENSTANCE. The Husband's Story and The Wife's Story.

First UK edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Two connected novels in one volume. Designed so that the book has no 'right way up': either novel can be read first, the book then turned upside down, the 'back' now becoming the 'front', with the two stories meeting in the middle, opposite ways up. Original navy cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Lawrence Zeegen illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£13.99 on the front flap).

Signed twice by Carol Shields, once on each title page. Two connected novels, both set across a rare weekend apart in a couple's decades-long marriage, one told from the perspective of the wife and the other from the perspective of the husband.