Near fine condition.Sinclair-Stevenson,1991.First UK edition-first printing.Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine,small nick and light shelf wear on the cover) with Dj(small crease and nick on the edges of the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Nice and clean pages as new with light shelf wear on the outer edges,small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first page of the book.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear.238pp.Price un-clipped.First edition.

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From Library Journal: Confined to a small hotel room while attending a medical meeting in New York, watching the street people, and observing her state of mind, Vera reflects on her past. As a nurse in postwar London, she has an affair with a married doctor who dies. Pregnant, she lives with a medical family, then has her baby and works in a lying-in home. A job in a boarding school plunges her further into isolation and despair until she escapes and marries an older man. Through this storehouse of experience, she reveals the poignant tentativeness and longing of her life, its perils and small rewards, her determination to live fully, to break through the closely watched hedges she describes.