Complete and unabridged, with 100 full-page plates by Spencer Gore, Philip de László and Miguelzinho Dutra. Fifteen stories from the last three years of Katherine Mansfield's life: a bay at dawn, a garden party going forward while a carter lies dead at the bottom of the lane, a lady's maid who gives up her one chance of marriage, two sisters who cannot decide anything now that their father is gone. She was dying of tuberculosis in France as she wrote them and knew it. Nothing is explained; the stories stop at the point where the reader understands. A hundred plates of gardens, roses and portraits by Monet, de László and their contemporaries run alongside the stories, matching Mansfield's eye for the moment a garden party goes on while a life ends.