Kathleen de Burca is a travel writer based in London. The office is the nearest thing she has to a home, and her colleagues to friends and a family. And then a quick series of blows strips away the props of her life, revealing the painful cost of her refugee existence, and she is faced with the frightening imperative of change.

Riverhead: 2001.
ISBN: 9781573221771. 500 pp.
Hardcover. Very good. In taped-to-self jacket protector.