One of my clients gave this to me as a "going away present" because I am abandoning him. He also told me, when I said I was leaving, that he "wasn't surprised," because "most people get tired of working with the poor and want to go do something more lucrative and interesting."

When I asked him what had made me think this was a good thing to give me, he said, "because you women always want to read some kind of woman book, about WOMEN!" Then he gave me a twenty minute lecture about Mary Shelley, and all her trials and tribulations before and during the writing of Frankenstein, which is, he says arguably, the first science fiction novel.

Will I ever read this? Probably not. But I will certainly treasure it, up until the day that I die.