The Latecomer by Sarah Aldridge. 1989 Naiad Press, sixth printing. Cover and book in very good condition. The Latecomer was Aldridge's first novel on Naiad Press in 1974, widely thought of as the first lesbian novel with a happy ending.

"There was one more, always there latent but sometimes, as now, surfacing unbidden, the knowledge that there was no one who had any intimate interest in her absence or her return."