New York: Random House, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Nory is a 9 year old American girl spending a term at a British boarding school, and this novel, by a writer who is consistently innovative and entertaining, is "a funny, poignant, complicated book for grown-ups about the wisdom and strangeness that can exist in a child's mind." SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-679439331.