Other People's Worlds

242, [1] pp. 8vo. A novel set in a Gloucestershire town, by the three-time Whitbread Prize winner and five-time Booker Prize nominee. "Safe in her old house, Julia is soon to be married to Francis. Doris is not happy. Sprawled among the grime of her Fulham flat, she gropes behind the bread bin for the vodka and waits for Francis. And Francis, dreaming of Constance Kent driving the knife into the child's throat, smiles."