New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002). First edition - A novel about starting over late in life - "Candida Wilton - a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters - moves from a beautiful Georgian house in Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels both nervous and exhilarated." 307 pp.