At thirty-one, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt thought she had everything: a great boyfriend, an exciting career, and the promise of marriage and children in her future. But the relationship ended and she found herself consumed by a rapidly approaching deadline: age thirty-five, the time at which most pregnancies are deemed ''high risk.'' Lehmann-Haupt traveled around the world and into the heart of America to explore the latest fertility choices available - as well as grapple with her own ambitions, anxieties, and personal values. A witty, poignant, and profoundly honest account of one woman's efforts to reconcile modern love with modern life, In Her Own Sweet Time resonates with a generation that wants it all - career, family, the perfect partner - but one that hasn't yet figured out how to fit it all together.

Highly rich and extravagant poems on love and tenderness.

This amusing tale is a biography, of sorts. For it is a biography not of one individual but of a portion of the generation of kids born in America in the mid-1940s. Their adventures and misadventures, missteps and mischief, and learning and yearning spring forth as they thrive in what many today consider far simpler and happier times. And, in this nostalgic look at part of America's past, the reader might discover ways to help future generations of children grow into their own sweet time and prevent perils imposed by others.

This title considers a wide range of 20th and 21st century literary works that feature literary deceptions and false memories and in which the relationship between text and author is not what it seems. By exploring a variety of examples of false or embellished memoirs, purportedly autobiographical novels that are in fact thoroughly fictional, as well as bogus authorial personae, it discusses whether it is possible to judge veracity by means of textual clues alone. It also argues that literary deceptions and false memoirs have particular cultural value and significance.

In March 1997, the front page headline on Sydney's Daily Telegraph read "Great White Hoax." It referred to the confession by Leon Carmen, a white male, that he'd written My Own Sweet Time, an award-winning novel hitherto believed to be the work of a part-aboriginal woman, Wanda Koolmatrie. The book had been used in the 1996 New South Wales HSC English exam, and an excerpt included in a recent anthology of high profile autobiography. My Own Sweet Time had also taken out the Dobbie Award for a first novel by a woman writer. There was embarrassment and much fury. The book was withdrawn from sale, the Dobbie prize money retrieved, and Carmen's agent John Bayley raided by the police. The outcry lasted for a week or more, the topic dominating talk-back radio and letters to the Editor. Some people supported Carmen, some didn't. There was an accusation of "cultural theft" by those who clearly hadn't read the novel. My Own Sweet Time deals in a general way with urban Australia in the sixties and early seventies, with Wanda's Aboriginality barely relevant to most of the proceedings... In brief, the narrative runs thus - Wanda's childhood has been spent with white foster parents in sleepy South Australia. At age seventeen, she heads for the city of Melbourne, where she meets Simon, a draft-dodge facilitator, who offers her a room. Wanda has already begun writing song lyrics, which she sends to a singer friend of Simon's in America... Returning to South Australia for a visit, she's soon tangling with hippiedom and rock'n'roll bands. Then to Sydney, and writing for an inner city theater group directed by an Aboriginal man, Bill Jacob... According to a (pre-revelation) review by poet Dorothy Hewett, This heartening comic odyssey cries out for a sequel. It could be the start of a new genre. Wanda Koolmatrie is now back in business.

A Darcy Sweet Mystery Box Set Five: Books 19 to 21 Book 19 - Close to Home The mists have returned! Darcy Sweet couldn’t work out why the mists would have come back to town. Things have been calm, almost normal, since she’d put the Pilgrim Ghost to rest and solved the mystery of Great Aunt Millie’s death. So why would the mists be back now? The only thing it could be… the only reason she can think of is that trouble is coming to Misty Hollow once again. But what could the trouble be? And was she prepared for it? Book 20 - The Naughty List The ghost of a teenage girl… A catastrophic fire… And a devastating secret that shatters Darcy Sweet’s world. It’s just another Christmas in Misty Hollow and it’s business as usual for Jon and Darcy with a disturbing mystery to solve. They have their very own naughty list. And they’re checking it twice! The further they dig into the mystery the more secrets they uncover. It seems that everyone has a secret including someone close to Darcy. The stakes are raised for Jon and Darcy when the mystery turns more deadly. Will they survive to see Christmas with their family? The Naughty List is the twentieth book in the Darcy Sweet Cozy Mystery series. If you love cozy mysteries with paranormal, and a touch of romance you’ll love the Darcy Sweet Cozy Mystery series. Pick up The Naughty List to read Darcy’s latest adventure today! Book 21 - Death Takes a Letter A friend needing help… A suspicious death four decades ago… Another mystery for Darcy Sweet to solve! For forty years Darcy Sweet’s friend Linda Becht has believed that her mother died of natural causes. She has had no reason to question that fact. Until now! Her discovery of some old love letters belonging to her mother would seem to cast the shadow of doubt upon that belief. Was her mother murdered? Linda enlists Darcy’s help to find out for sure. Well into her second pregnancy and unable to contact the spirit world for guidance, how will Darcy unearth the truth to this decades-old mystery? Death Takes a Letter is the twenty-first book in the Darcy Sweet Cozy Mystery series. If you love cozy mysteries with paranormal, and a touch of romance you’ll love the Darcy Sweet Cozy Mystery series. Pick up Death Takes a Letter to read Darcy’s latest adventure today!