First edition, first impression of the WATERSTONE'S EXCLUSIVE EDITION signed by the author with yellow sprayed edges, ribbon marker, pictorial end-papers and the additional short story: CONCORD 34.
"Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They worry about sex and friendship and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?" (from the front flap)
'A tour de force. The dialogue never falters, and the prose burns up the page.' (GUARDIAN)
Book is unread like new. Dust jacket is like new, now protected by a transparent archival slleeve.
