SUMMARY: Shirley's adventures at the beach are interspersed with familiar parental warnings.

Shirley's adventures at the beach are interspersed with familiar parental warnings.

While her mother chats away, Shirley is busy escaping into a world of adventure, bold knights, green forests - and plastic ducks.

“IN THIS THIRD ACT OF MY LIFE, MUCH HAS BECOME CLEARER. SO MUCH IS OVER, AND I AM OVER SO MUCH . . .” At a certain time in life, we all come to realize what

"Which one of you bitches is my mother?" Four elegant, successful, and sophisticated women in their forties are called to New York's Pierre Hotel to meet Lili -