Publisher:
London, Hodder & Stoughton / H&S: 1972
O'Donoghue's first novel. "Set in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands between the wars," this "is the story of the Sinclair family, a clutch of children growing up, haphazardly loved, understood, fed and bullied by a collection of adults with the sort of priorities that make their childhood a mixture of heaven and hell." Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 191 pages. Faded top edge, tiny soil mark to top of fore-edge, faint sticker shadow to top right corner of front end paper, faint price in pencil to half-title, in price-clipped dust jacket w/moderate wear to corners/spine ends, 1/2" ...
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