The winner of the 1989 Booker Prize, a haunting evocation of lost causes and lost love, and an elegy for England at a time of acute change, issued into the launch list of "Faber Modern Classics".
"Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Shipped off to board...