Stoddart, Toronto, 1997, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-7737-3041-9.  Hard cover, 280 pages including Acknowledgements.  Unread copy; pages lightly tanned.  Dust jacket with price intact shows a bit of edge and cover wear.  ‘Allan O’Reilly is a young actor on the cusp of a brilliant career when he meets Alice Riverton on the set of a forgettable movie.  Alice, almost 40, almost successful, had escaped to Los Angeles after an unhappy affair with a married man, but her mother’s sudden death brings her back to Toronto.  Scheduled to play Gertrude in Hamlet, Alice falls in love with Allan and sweeps him into her world.  Their intense relationship, already strained by the weight of grief, shifts calamitously when Allan is cast as Hamlet.’ (from front flap)