Charming, sensitive, beautiful, Giuseppina Marino LeylandÕs exceptional book is a mixed genre collection of creative writing, including short stories and fragments of poetry, with a mini novella as the centrepiece. Quirky and eclectic and infused with an ItalianÐAustralian flavour, youÕll find tales of gypsies, women seeking to know their destinies, relationships good and bad, and wonderfully rich stories reflecting the experience of settling in Australia in the Ô50s, Ô60s and beyond. The theme of ItalianÐAustralian migration and settlement permeates the collection, criss-crossing time and space, the settings shifting from Italy to Australia and then back again. Spilling over from believable tales about rounded, warm characters into wisdom about the human condition itself, the overarching theme of the anthology is Ôcrazy lifeÕÑthe world is crazy and we are all a little crazy in it.