The House Guest

Jonathan Cape, London, 1996. Yellowing at page edges, previous owner's name on inner title page, minor wear at dustjacket extremities, otherwise good secondhand condition.

Robin Dromgoole, the only son of a widowed mother, learns to cook with Emmeline who lives next door. But Lisa on the other side, whom he minded when she was a baby, is the girl he marries. As ususal Anderson's writing is dazzling, she writes from the heart and shoots from the hip.