The acclaimed second novel from Kate Jennings, author of `Snake'.

On Wall Street, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. She finds herself working there because she needs serious money: after ten good years, her beloved older husband Bailey is gravely ill. So begins her journey into two nightmare worlds.

`Powerful, and darkly, disconcertingly comic.' Margaret Walters, Sunday Times

`Blackly funny, coruscatingly clear-eyed and intelligent, Kate Jennings' second novel doesn't waste a word.' Maureen Duffy, author of Restitution

`A unique book by an extraordinary writer: The great city illuminated from within.' Shirley Hazzard, author of `The Transit of Venus'

`A small pearl of a novel...as gripping as any thriller.' Newsday