New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book (published after 30 years, when Torrington was 58), winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year award in Great Britain. First hardcover edition (published in paper only in the UK.) Set in Glasgow during a single week in the 60's, this is the story of a writer with no job and still unpublished. ISBN: 0-15-1874271.