First published 1963 by MacGibbon & Kee Ltd.
This edition published 1966 by Pan Books Ltd, 8 Headfort Place, London, SW1

In 1959 Nell Dunn, then twenty-three and newly married, crossed the bridge from fashionable Chelsea and bought a tiny house in Battersea. 'It was the most beautiful place I have ever been to. A grapevine grew wild over the outdoor lavatory and the garden was full of sunflowers six-feet high with faces as wide as dinner-plates. At the end of our street were four tall chimneys...' The exuberant, uninhibited life she found in the tired old streets and under the railway arches enchanted her, and she recaptures it in these closely linked sketches which are funny, witty, bawdy and gorgeously human.

'It's your turn to seduce me today,' says Joy and very gently he took off her stockings...'

After her tough husband Tom has gone to jail, Joy finds perfect love in the arms of Dave. Till Dave gets twelve years for robbery with violence...

She still loves him, but her restless, impulsive nature drives her to snatch sex and excitement wherever she can find them... working as a barmaid... taking up 'photographic modelling'... and always moving from man to man...

With the vivid realism that made her first book, Up The Junction, an international bestseller, Nell Dunn brings Joy - loving girl, avid pleasure-seeker, poor cow - to life.

© Nell Dunn 1967

First published 1967 by MacGibbon & Kee Ltd.
This edition published 1968 by Pan Books Ltd, 33 Tothill Street, London, SW1

Beneath the sultry Moroccan skies Maro Palmer searches for fulfilment in the caresses of her beautiful beatnik lover, Daniel...

While abandoning herself to his uninhibited sensuality, she re-lives the days of frustration in London with her sick husband and three demanding children...

An erotic portrait of a rich and beautiful woman whose dreamy descent into brutal chaos is told with all the stark eloquence for which this young author is justly famed.

© Nell Dunn 1971

First published 1971 under the title The Incurable by Johnathan Cape Ltd
This edition published 1973 by Pan Books Ltd, 33 Tothill Street, London, SW1

(Does anyone know who this model is? She's beautiful!)