THE ITALIAN GIRL

First edition, first printing. Original turqoise cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in the Reynolds Stone illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight. There is a small bookseller's label (Lundgrens, Malmo) affixed to the lower right of the front pastedown. The contents are otherwise without marks or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper has a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. Not price-clipped (21s net to the front flap).

The author's eighth novel. "Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One by one his relatives reveal their secrets to a reluctant Edmund: illicit affairs, hidden passions, shameful scandals. And the heart of all, there is, as always, the family's loyal servant, the Italian girl" - publisher's blurb. (Tominaga and Scheidermeyer 124).