In a family in which everyone has done everyone else, Dad Paul, now living with daughter, Merri, has invited them all to Christmas Dinner. What possibly could go wrong with that?
It's Rebecca's first day in the eighth grade and the fourteen year old girl is excited. Her whole life she has been dreaming of this moment, the day when she will finally be queen of the school. For the eighth grade is the highest grade at Robert E. Lee Middle School. She had heard the big brouhaha about the changing of the school district, the redrawing of its boundaries and the busing in of kids from some of the housing projects in West End but she hadn't paid it any mind.
When Trisha stops into a local bar, she doesn't know what's compelled her. But after a chat with the friendly bartender, she finds herself with a brand new outlook on life...and a brand new body to go with it.
A jokey tale of fantasy in the mode of Steven Seven's Master's World Universe, with not a twist but a large manipulation. Names of characters are a play on names, places and firms and Brit jokes?? based on the prime subject.