All I have. Marstein T.

Monica is thirteen, and she guesses that the serene world in which we live in childhood is not forever. She is already twenty -seven, and she is a mistress of a refined intellectual. The professions flicker: a teacher, a journalist, a copywriter... Ten years later she has a house, her husband and a very independent daughter Michen. In forty -six Monica Muse of an unrecognized genius and the mistress of the farm with restless hens. Maybe this is happiness?

in fifty -two, does she look in the mirror and suddenly notices how much she looked like a mother...

in this story told with a rare emotional accuracy, almost as inevitably you recognize yourself.