Format: Hardback

Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons (1984)

Pages: 187

The novel revolves around widow, Muriel, her son Paul and his friend Henry. Underground at the time of the "Accident" they survive and are joined by various idiosyncratic individuals. The author also wrote "The Camomile Lawn", "Harnessing Peacocks" and "The Vacillations of Poppy Carew".