"Originally published in hardcover in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada ... in 2007"--T.p. verso.

" Heather Mallick is sorely disappointed - the world has not turned out quite the way she had hoped it would. But rather than retreat from it, she takes the world head on in her columns, cataloguing the many situations and items in our daily lives that we are told we should fear, teaching us how to cope with people we just can't stand, or writing about the valuable life lesson to be learned from one of her childhood heroes: Mrs. Tittlemouse, the original domestic goddess"