London: Gollancz, 1976. dj. SIGNED card, hardcover first edition - A novel about a woman who literally 'explodes' out of a suffocating marriage - a serious look at how traditional social expectations can stifle an individual: a burden borne, in our society, most often by married women. Laid in is a small blue card with these lines typed on it: 'There is no poetry in lies/ but in crude honesty/ There is hope for poetry.' and SIGNED by Sarton underneath her typed name. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-575-020571.