Tales from Swankville

Tales from Swankville is a collection of humorous andpoignant essays inspired by the authors own experiencesas mothers in suburbia where parents are blurring the linesbetween encouragement and competitiveness, assertiveness andaggression, common sense and a sense of entitlement. Fromthe classroom to the soccer field; the dance studio to thebeautifully tree-lined street, no arena is left unscathed byparents behaving badly. Life in Swankville is a fairy-tale . . . gone a bit askew!