<div><p>"Amy Witting is comparable to Jean Rhys, but she has more starch, or vinegar. The effect is bracing."?<I>The New Yorker</I></p><p>A best-selling portrait of the artist as a troubled young woman.</p><p>Isobel's imaginary friends include the Virgin Mary and Sherlock Holmes, Lord Byron, W.H. Auden, and T.S. Eliot. She's less at ease with the flesh-and-blood people she meets, and least of all with herself. But a lucky encounter and a little detective work reveal her true destiny. An autobiographical classic from one of Australia's literary treasures.</p><p><B>Amy Witting</B> (1918?2001) wrote novels, stories, and verse which often appeared in the <I>New Yorker</I>.</p></DIV>