Playing with the Grown-ups. [Author SIGNED copy.]

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,grey +pink pictorial illustrated dw/dj design by Sarah Morris,with grey,white and pink lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a white headband and sewn-in grey silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate plain,pale pink endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,1-285pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED title page,a dedication, an epigram (Antoine de Saint-Exupery,The Little Prince),and to the rear,acknowledgements,a note on type and 6pp blanks.
For Kitty,growing up at Hay House amongst bluebell woods and doting relations is heaven.But for her mother,the restless Marina,silver-eyed beauty who paints and weeps with alacrity,this comfortable domesticity cannot provide the novelty and excitement she craves. Swami-ji,Marina's guru,sees her future in New York,and so the family is scooped up and relocated,leaving Kitty exiled in a colourless boarding school.Reprieve comes in the form of the guru's summons to the ashram; but then,just as Kitty is approaching enlightenment,they are off again, leaving for an England that is now fast and unfamiliar. This time no god,man or Martini can staunch Marina's hunger for a happiness that proves all too elusive.
And Kitty,turning fifteen,must choose: whether to play dangerous games with the grown-ups or begin to put herself first.
Witty,lyrical and heartbreaking,'Playing with the Grown-ups' is a modern coming-of-age story that confirms the arrival of a unique new talent.Author's 2nd novel,her first and debut 'The Man with the Dancing Eyes' was highly praised and acclaimed.
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