To escape from the restraints of a suffocating relationship, Anna moves into a flat with a friend, Prue.  In the old attic room which she adopts as her study, Anna is presented with a ghostly series of women through the ages – women who, like Anna, have not conformed to the usual roles of wife and mother – a Victorian spinster, a nun, a nurse who worked with Florence Nightinglae during the Crimean War and a young wife who dies childless.  Through these and the visits of the less transient figures of Simon, her doggedly devoted boyfriend, Dan, her flat-mate’s self-seeking and manipulative brother and Harriet, Prue’s mother, Anna contemplates her life and what she wants from it.

Published by Samuel French

50 pages

Condition; EXCELLENT