New York, NY, USA: Bantam Books, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. “On a damp March evening in London, in 1908, Clementine Hozier returns home, tired and hungry after a hard day’s work. She has been giving French lessons at two shillings and six pence (roughly fifty cents) an hour. Clementine lives with her mother at a small terrace house, 51 Abingdon Villas, off Kensington High Street, and money is always desperately..... More