New York: Random House, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set mostly in Nice by this Booker prize winner author - who has been called 'one of the few living female novelists of real genius' and 'worthy of comparison to Jane Austen.' Dust jacket praise from many authors and reviewers, among them A.N. Wilson who says 'this beautifully crafted book is another masterpiece...and each plangent, melancholy paragraph is paradoxically pure joy.'. ISBN: 0-375-505822.