Opera based on the poplular novel by Daphne Du Maurier. Three-act opera commissioned by Opera North and awarded an Arts Council bursary Libretto by Edward Marsh from the novel by Daphne du Maurier. It was composed in 1982.

Paul Griffiths says 'The piece is full of clever and beautiful things; the early scenes proceed almost in convulsions of orchestral brilliance within a marvellously clear and animated world whose chief references sometimes explicit are to Ravel and Stravinsky. The scene with the pig is deliciously rich in bass gruntings; that with the milkman cat mixes Marx brohters dialogue with a sophisticated recreation of low musical gags'.The Times 6 August 1985