Go to the library. Take out Cathy Lamb's books. Read them immediately. I don't know how she manages to create such incredible characters who are so REAL, so easy to relate to, so much like me in different ways...it's as if each one is a different piece of me. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." ~Alan Bennet