This is an auction for INNOCENCE by Kathleen Tessaro.

"INNOCENCE is written with the same cool precision as her bestseller Elegance.'

• SUNDAY TIMES (UK)

"An absorbing novel of love, innocence and experience."

• WOMAN AND HOME (UK)

"A warm tale of love, friendship and following your dreams."

• COSMOPOLITAN

"This is a coming-of-age novel for women who have wasted their 20s on cheap men and rough wine."

• Guardian (UK)

"A wonderful tale of lust, love, life and redemption."

• Waterstones Books Quarterly

Amazon.com review:

"Bestselling author, Kathleen Tessaro returns with a stunning new novel that will be a big hit with fans of her debut success Elegance. It's 1987 and Evie is leaving home for the first time, headed for London to study acting. Along with her fellow students and roommates, Imogene (a born again Laura Ashley poster child and frustrated virgin) and Robbie (native New Yorker, budding bohemian, and very much not a virgin), Evie's determined to make her mark both on stage and off. But then life and love, in the shape of struggling rock musician Jake Albery, intervene. And everything changes. Fourteen years later and Evie's stuck. She's now a single mother teaching drama classes, her dreams long since abandoned. Robbie's dead, killed in car accident and Imo's lost touch. Then a friendship from the past comes to haunt Evie. Literally. And suddenly everything is about to change again."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Hardback 2005.

439 pages.

Good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.95 (ordinary post) or $5.95 (tracked mail).

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston ?North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.