There are 1001 things you don't know about teenage girls until you live them. We are all familiar with the hormones, the illogical rage, the awful time keeping, and the daily dramarama. However, you don't know that they will steal your stuff, bruise your self-esteem just as you hit your melancholy midlife, and love/hate you all day long with exhausting regularity seconds after turning 13. This stage of motherhood is not for the fainthearted. These are the loneliest of maternal times filled with pockets of shame you cannot share with anyone. In Lorraine Candy's very funny memoir, she also gives down-to earth advice and expert's talk. She lights the way for other mums facing life with teenage girls, other mums caught in the perfect storm of parenting tomorrow's bright and brilliant women just as they go through their own midlife unravelling. Most importantly, she is the woman who loves and lives with dragons.