It is spring and the sap flows, increasing both the chances of joy and folly.
Our heroine, a beguiling wench, struggles to balance the compulsions of instinct with disciplined reason. Are men the fools they appear to be?
She enlists her circle of friends in an experiment drafting a personal column and setting about to compare the written responses she draws with on site inspections, discussing the results of her field work with her colleagues. As in the best of laboratory experiments, there are wildly unanticipated results.
Variant and mutant strains of emotions arise as our heroine seeks to maintain clinical distance while also testing her own capacity for delusion.
The result is a brilliant romp in the hay, an insightful frolic that takes up such questions as what does woman want, what does man think she wants, and who do men think they are, as well as what do they want women to think they are.
Beneath the laughter that the book elicits there is much serious thinking as the narrative darts into surprising areas.
Ms.Veres has achieved an uncanny synthesis, as if the work of Kraft Ebbing, Alfred Kinsey and George Bataille were melded with that of Jane Austen.

-- Makie MacLufhan, staff thinker Literary Archives.