Also by the Author
FICTION
The Golden Child
The Bookshop
Offshore
Human Voices
At Freddie’s
Innocence
The Beginning of Spring
The Gate of Angels
The Blue Flower
The Means of Escape
NON-FICTION
Edward Burne-Jones
The Knox Brothers
A House of Air: Selected Writings
So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
Fourth Estate
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
77–85 Fulham Palace Road,
Hammersmith, London W6 8JB
www.4thestate.co.uk
First published in Great Britain by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1984
Previously published in paperback by Harvill 1992
Copyright © Penelope Fitzgerald 1984
Preface © Hermione Lee 2013
Introduction © Michèle Roberts 2014
Series advisory editor: Hermione Lee
Penelope Fitzgerald asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Source ISBN: 978-0-00-714274-3
Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 978-0-00-737875-3
Version: 2014-04-16
About the Publisher
Australia
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd.
Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street
Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
http://www.harpercollins.com.au
Canada
HarperCollins Canada
2 Bloor Street East – 20th Floor
Toronto, ON, M4W, 1A8, Canada
http://www.harpercollins.ca
New Zealand
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Limited
P.O. Box 1
Auckland, New Zealand
United Kingdom
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
77-85 Fulham Palace Road
London, W6 8JB, UK
http://www.harpercollins.co.uk
United States
HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
10 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022
http://www.harpercollins.com