Macmillan, London, 1996, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-333-63234-6.  Hard cover, 343 pages.  Very good; blue boards with gold lettering on spine, light corner and spine end wear; binding sound.  Dust jacket with price intact shows a bit of edge wear, one short edge tear at lower rear panel repaired on verso.  Book interior clean and unmarked.  ‘When Sissie Slipper slips, the world of fashion gasps.  Her mentor Rudolph dies and Sissie loses a tooth.  Life as a supermodel is at an end but that leaves a wider world to explore. … deals with the most serious of subjects with the most brilliant and skillful of humour.  The result is a richly disturbing mix of fable, comedy and buried secrets of the darkest kind.’ (from front flap)