Alongside them are the other walking wounded getting on with their lives Idaonce beautiful and now hiding her scars under layers of fat tiny Dot who isstronger ... » 

Alongside them are the other walking wounded getting on with their lives Idaonce beautiful and now hiding her scars under layers of fat tiny Dot who isstronger than she seems Edwina a mother who lives vicariously through otherseven her wild daughter Rachel who finds almost too late what its like tosoar above the crowd and not to mention the men in their lives. From themarvellous ambivalence of the title question it leaves us with a whole lotmore to consider about life and its infinite variety. «