In Cold Domain

Lilith Collett lives in an Eden she is bent on destroying. If her family vex or thwart her in any way, the paradise of a garden that enchanted their childhood suffers for it. The vine, the rockery, the pergola - nothing at Cold Domain is safe from Lilith's ruthless slash-and-burn policy. Enter an archangel: Miguel-Angel Arqueso Algaron Perez de Vega, under whose spell downtrodden Barbara dares defy her mother. And when William's lover Caspar also joins the battle in his own subtle way, the fates of the Colletts and their garden are finally and unexpectedly sealed.

"A streamlined, ruthlessly stripped-down psychological family romance with enough plot twists and character revelations to fuel a book three times as long, as wicked and funny as anything Fay Weldon has ever written. Anne Fine is brilliant"

Time Out

"A glorious tirade against the grind of motherhood"

Observer

"Swooping gracefully from seriousness to farce and back again, Anne Fine succeeds in exposing a whole gamut of hidden emotions in an admirably perceptive novel

Good Housekeeping

"A fairytale for grown-ups... wittily observed

Sunday Express

First published: 1994
ISBN 0552998273   £6.99 paperback

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