New York: Simon & Schuster, (1982). First edition - The author's first novel, the story of four successful, sophisticated women in their forties, women who had been friends when younger, angrily confronted by a young actress demanding to know which one of them is her mother. Considered a classic in its genre, this was uncommon in being explicit about women's right to sexual pleasure. Laid in is a newspaper clipping which states that the advance payment for the US rights to this book was the highest ever paid to a British writer for a first book. Also laid in is an invitation to a party being given by Conran. With a planned first printing of over 100,000 copies this advance issue is much more uncommon than the trade edition. 601 pp.