Frances Fyfield — Undercurrents
London, Little, Brown and Company, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this romantic thriller from Frances Fyfield. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the original unclipped photographic dustwrapper. Gary J. McCallum noted in the Armchair Detective (1995, 3:28), "The defining feature of Fyfield's novels is their astonishing generosity of spirit, which may seem somewhat incongruous given her subject matter: insanity, incest, violence (often murder), emptiness, suicide -- all at the darkest extreme of human experience. Yet each of her characters is accorded a distinctive voice, that humanises even the most unregenerate of them." In original publishers' cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, both cloth and dustwrapper are smart. Internally, firmly bound, bright and clean throughout. Author's signature to the title page. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
