Alfred A. Knopf, Toronto, 2002, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-676-97431-7.  Hard cover, 387 pages including Acknowledgments and about the author.  Very good; light shelf wear, tight binding with headbands.  Dust jacket with price intact shows some edge and cover wear, short tear at upper front corner fold.  Interior clean and unmarked.  ‘Cleo, a Canadian on holiday in New Orleans, is sitting alone on a French Quarter wharf late one November night … When a woman clad in full evening dress, from rhinestone tiara to high heels, takes a running leap off the wharf into the river’s chocolate swell, Cleo is more than a little astonished. … But Madeline, it turns out, isn’t bent on suicide.  She’s irresistibly drawn to water, as is Cleo, who was conceived (unintentionally) during the tragic flooding of Florence in 1966.  The re-appearance of the mysterious river-swimmer a few nights later on the late evening news triggers Cleo’s determination to find her.’ (from front flap)