This is a book which depicts a woman's feelings towards her growing and changing body and explains her eventual decision to have cosmetic surgery. The book follows a girl growing up in a world surrounded by image and 'the need for a perfect body' and her realisation that her body just did not conform to the 'expected'. It also follows her move into womanhood and her eventual realisation that she did want cosmetic surgery to eventually allow her to become a 'real' woman. It explores her considerations for and against having 'the operation', her hopes, her fears and also the reactions of friends and colleagues towards the operation. It debates that nature, whilst so very wonderful and awe inspiring, can deliver something less than perfect but that modern life as we know it has the power to change and to deliver almost perfectionism. The book continues into the life of the woman after 'the operation' and her decision to have yet more surgery......