London: Collins, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's first book, set in a small tobacco farming community in North Carolina in 1937 - a highly praised novel which is becomingly increasingly hard to find in the first printing. In her review, Eudora Welty called Shivers 'richly endowed and sure of her way.' Among the other US reviews quoted on the back cover are such comments as 'a masterpiece, a jewel, an utterly brilliant piece of work' and 'breathtakingly accomplished' 141 pp. ISBN: 0-00-222738x.