Missing Words | Loree WestronPostal worker Jenny's life is in the doldrums. Her daughter is all grown up and ready to face the world, her marriage is falling apart, and now her best friend and colleague tells her he plans to retire. So, when a postcard from Australia, begging the recipient for forgiveness but marked 'insufficient address', lands on her sorting table, she does the unthinkable she slips it up her sleeve, with the intention of delivering it herself. Jenny sets off

and in the process becoming this country's most prominent black player

the effect it had on public tastes

that spans the Bronze Age to the coming of Hollywood's Golden Age

With spreads to colour

This is the story of how I got from there to here: about my teenage obsession with marine biology

and an honouring

FOR BLACK GIRLS:Understand that your journey is unique

'It would be wrong to view this book as just a highly accomplished homage to a personal hero

And can they find the man of their dreams when sex has become a substitute for love

Julian is in the wedding along with his cousin Marisol

with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity

Callie Rose