Adult novel about love, sex, aging, the art of literary biography, tattooing, underwear, lesbian fiction, Enid Blyton, drugs, female circumcision, family values, gardening, body piercing, holiday resorts, genocide, cats, cricket, koalas and the Virgin Mary. Two significant events have changed the life of the main character. She won $30,000 playing Keno and has fallen in love with a woman much younger than herself. In 1979 the author won the Somerset Maughan Award for her novel 'Jack and Jill'. In 1989 her novel 'Broken Words' won the Christina Stead Prize for fiction at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.