Heinemann Publishers, Auckland, 1983. Dustjacket spine faded, with fade/discolouration mark to top of front cover, wear to bottom of dustjacket spine. Some foxing to page edges.

In a strange old building known as Paddy's Puzzle, Clara Bentley endures the fear of war, and waits for her lover, Ambrose, a black American soldier. She is also waiting for the culmination of her illness and for her sister to whom she dreads having to explain her new life in the Puzzle.