Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with. An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions – as some man’s daughter/wife/mother – no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2025
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages: 198
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780340581230
ISBN 10: 0340581239