Second Half FirstA stunning memoir from one of Australia's most highly acclaimed writers. Beginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the past thirty years. In asking the candid questions that so many of us faceabout love and independence, growing older, the bonds of friendship and familyshe reassesses the experiences that have shaped her writing, her reading, and the way she has lived. The result is