Longlisted for the 2003 Women's Prize for Fiction
Dot used to think she was perfect, with her pointy nose, pink skin and blonde hair. But now she lives on Abalone Avenue with a husband who chases women and swordfish. And she has a rather icky Fatal Flaw. And the universe doesn’t give a damn!
So DOT decides to End It All. Will death be fast? Slow? EMBARRASSING? But despite her valiant suicide by tea cosy followed by a jaunt to the morgue, DOT wakes up…
