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Reta Winters has a long partnership with the doctor Tom Winters, three daughters, good friends and a modest name as a writer of light comic fiction. In the spring of 2000 her eldest, Norah, abandons university and her boyfriend to sit silently on a Toronto street corner, wearing a sign that says only 'Goodness'. Grieving, Reta begins a sequel to her novel and tries to work out why her daughter has withdrawn. Her search becomes a funny, angry meditation on women's place in the world: she writes letters, never sent, to commentators who ignore women's work, and spars with her bombastic New York editor, who has his own plans for her book.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Canada, 2000

First published

2002

Author's age

67 when first published

ISBN

9780007137701 (Fourth Estate, United Kingdom)

9780007137695 (Fourth Estate, United Kingdom)

9780060874407 (Harper Perennial, United States)

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