The jacket: the head and tail of the spine are damaged, including minor loss, as is the tail of the front flap; the head is chipped and the back stained. The stain travels along the length of the inside of the cover, but is only visible at the back. In its favour, the jacket is unclipped. The body of the book: the boards have an upward lift, and there is a small bookseller's label on the tail of the front paste down, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. 223 pages. Please check with us for an accurate postage cost, it will be less than quoted. ".... a largely autobiographical novel (The Adonis Garden), which Waugh reviewed in The Spectator of 22 June 1961, .... In his review of the novel, Waugh chided her for using up enough material for several books. "(The Evelyn Waugh Society) "....Daphne Fielding was a society author in the decades between 1950 and 1980. Having been a part of the world of Bright Young Things in the 1920s, she was well known in society as the Marchioness of Bath, and following her marriage to Xan Fielding she produced a stream of books of easy charm which achieved great popularity...." (Obituray in The Independent 1997)