New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel, based (very loosely) on members of Smiley's own family, this traces one woman's life, from the 1880s to World War II. Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early, a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer - but also a man both egomaniacal and obsessed. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 978-1400040605.