The novel revolves around Margery Blandon, a woman in her seventies and situations she finds herself due to her lifestyle and choices.

The setting of the novel is 500 metres away from her home in Brunswick, Victoria and the house her protagonist Margery has in the novel, is real about which Ham said, "I pass it four or five times a week walking my dog.’ It is one of those un-renovated opportunities that the real estate agent son-in-law in the novel paws so covetously: ‘a detached, two-bedroom weatherboard cottage with kitchen and bathroom tacked into the back and outdoor lavatories’.

"[5] Talking about the subject matter of novel, Ham said "It’s not a very good premise – a little old lady about to end her life.

Its playful message hints at Ham's skill in disguising her informed eloquence on a serious subject behind sparkling, entertaining prose.

This takes her work beyond mere mirroring, and makes it an achievement which is both aesthetic, and ethical: an accomplishment of the soul, if you like.