Gathers together articles from Rita Ann Higgins' Sunday Independent This Woman's Life' column, as well as other select essays and poems, many of which are previously unpublished. Rita Ann Higgins was born in 1955 in Galway, Ireland, where she still resides. She won the Peadar O'Donnell Award in 1989 and has received several Arts Council of Ireland bursaries. Her collection Sunny Side Plucked was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She was made an honorary fellow at Hong Kong Baptist University in November 2006. She is a member of Aosd na.