New York: Henry Holt, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fitzgerald's concise but sympathetic third novel, winner of the Booker Prize in 1979 when it was first published in the UK. Set in the 1960s this is "a dry, genuinely funny novel, set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with the tide of the Thames on Battersea Reach. Living between land and water, they feel as if they belong to neither." 141 pp.