Barbara Anderson's novel spans the lives of three childhood friends, and interweaves their stories with a fascinating tale of literary detection. The book brims with her wry humour, and with her extraordinary gift for extracting the most telling human details from everyday conversations and ordinary life. Anderson's prose in The House Guest is simply dazzling: she writes from the heart and shoots from the hip.

Victoria University Press 1995 Trade Paperback
Good / Reasonable secondhand condition.