Fiona Kidman — Paddy's puzzle

Heinemann 1983 Hardback, 208pp. In a strange old building known as Paddy's Puzzle, Clara Bentley endures the fear of war, and waits for her lover, Ambrose, a black American soldier. She is also waiting for the culmination of her illness and for her sister to whom she dreads having to explain her new life in the Puzzle. DJ. (ISBN: 0868636673). Good.