It's rubbish, obviously. You hardly need me to tell you that. But - and this a small but - it's not quite as bad as the British repackaging would have you believe. I mean, these publishers can't even spell the name of one of major characters right on the back of the book - it's Cathie, not Cathy.

Ms Herbert incidentally was previously the author of The Summer Camp (1963, republished by the Softcover Library in 1966) and A Strange Innocence (Softcover, 1968), which would appear from the titles to be working in the same kind of direction.