Written in a rich variety of voices, these colourful narratives aim to entertain. They begin with a little girls weekend in an artists home, then shiver from a Giant-Ladys wintry farm, to summer dining in a mansion and a boys exotic lunches on a neighbours porch. A university student delights in her debonair older man, a corporate executive rediscovers romance, an immigrants daughter searches for a lost homeland, and women challenged by advancing years cope each in her unique way. Realistic, bizarre, funny, or touching, the stories in Nine to Ninety promise a potpourri of diverting reading.