Publisher's Synopsis
Celeste Zylberstein and Francis Campion are the only two original inhabitants still living at the "Nautilus", a strange shell-shaped building, which was a haven for a floating community of cosmopolitan refugees, intellectuals and artists in the 1930s. Gus Crabb, a dealer in bric-a-brac, is the only other resident until the arrival of Rowena Snow. She is searching for the Heligoland of her childhood imagination - like a hermit crab seeking a home...
