London: Cape, 1985

8vo, pp. 191. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear panel. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with the lightest of edgewear to top edge.

Second edition. First published in 1973. INSCRIBED BY HANDL TO HER THEATRICAL AGENT SARA RANDALL: 'For Sara, Love Irene Handl'.

Sequel to Handl's first novel The Sioux (1965), and featuring the same psychopathic family. Irene Handl [1901-1987], one of Britain's finest character actors, had a late-flowering literary career, and counted Noel Coward, Doris Lessing and Daphne du Maurier among her devotees.