Liverpool: The Toby Press LLC. (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel of this author, who is also a musician, a psychoanalyst, and a prize-winning poet and a best-selling novelist in her native Holland (as well as in Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden and Austria.) As in all of her fiction, the three themes of her adult life - music, psychology and motherhood - are present in this tightly organized novel - one told in the various voices of the 4 adults who are the protagonists. Originally published in 1994 in Dutch as 'Het meesterstuk' in Dutch, this is the first English language edition. Translated by Jeannette K. Ringold. 230 pp. ISBN: 1-902881052.