8vo. (Some toning.) Original cloth (slight wear and soiling to extremities); publisher’s dust jacket (some chipping with a few short tears with old cellotape repairs, some soiling and toning).

FIRST EDITION of the author’s third novel, which is a somewhat dark coming-of-age story of a 12-year-old girl at her brother’s wedding and explores gender norms and racial identity, was later adapted to the stage several times as well as for film and television.