This book was set in Galliard, a typeface drawn by Matthew Carter for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in 1978.

Carter, one of the foremost type designers of the twentieth century, studied and worked with historic handcut punches before designing typefaces for Linotype, film,and digital composition. He based his Galliard design on sixteenth-century types by Robert Granjon. Galliard has the classic feel of the old Granjon types as well as a vibrant,dashing quality that marks it as a contemporary typeface and makes its name so apt.

It secures Miller's place in the company of writers like Anne Tyler and Alison Lurie ... one of her strongest,most satisfying books' New York Times Book Review

One minute John is the cornerstone of Eva's world, rock to his two teenage stepdaughters and his own son Theo, the next he is tossed through the air in a traffic accident, and snapped like a twig. His sudden death changes everything. Eva struggles with the terror and desolation of loneliness, and finds herself drawn back to her untrustworthy ex-husband; Emily, the eldest daughter, grapples with her new-found independence and responsibility.Little Theo can only begin to fathom the permanence of his father's death.But for Daisy, John's absence opens up a whole world of confusion just at the onset of adolescence and blossoming sexuality. And in steps a man only too willing to take advantage.