Sydney, Australia: Picador Pan Macmillan, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, preceded by two award-winning collections of short fiction, a story inspired by the ancient epic, which moves from Australia to London to the Middle East in the years from the end of the first World War to that of the second. Winner of The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award, and short listed for the Miles Franklin and other awards. In 2015 she received the Patrick White award for the body of her writing. The true first printing , issued as a trade paperback original in Australia. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-330362755.