Why do exciting things always seem to happen to other people?
Dublin is in full, trendy swing, with parties and atmosphere galore, but it all seems to be passing Anna by. There's her editorial job at fusty publishers O'Sullivan and Hackett, for a start... and then there's her home life, with a demented mother and hervhippy, poetry-writing boyfriend. All that, and she's struggling to write a novel that isn't a copy of Jane Eyre.