9780811214742 | Reprint edition (New Directions, June 1, 2001), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In mid-twentieth-century London, aspiring young writer Fleur Talbot becomes secretary to a motley group of egoists who are composing their memoirs in advance and uncovers material enough for any novelist, but is perplexed by the familiarity of their lives.

9780380709359 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, March 1, 1990), cover price $9.00 | About this edition: In mid-century London, aspiring young writer Fleur Talbot becomes secretary to a motley group of egotists who are composing their memoirs in advance and uncovers material enough for any novelist, but is perplexed by the familiarity of their lives

9780399506635 | Putnam Pub Group, November 1, 1982, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: A young aspiring novelist in post-World War II London finds the dreadfully dull life stories of a group of eccentrics called the Autobiographical Association begin to liven up with a series of events that is uncannily similar to the plot of her own unfinished novel.

9780786194322 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2002), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: A young aspiring novelist in post-World War II London finds the dreadfully dull life stories of a group of eccentrics called the Autobiographical Association begin to liven up with a series of events that is uncannily similar to the plot of her own unfinished novel.

9780786123162 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A young aspiring novelist in post-World War II London finds the dreadfully dull life stories of a group of eccentrics called the Autobiographical Association begin to liven up with a series of events that is uncannily similar to the plot of her own unfinished novel.