“…Lawrence does have an excellent eye for detail, and makes the use of the most mundane ones, like cooking porridge and stripping beds to create a moving memorial to a mother and son killed in an auto accident reported in the morning news. These poems have been honed with care, old truths restated with grace. Perhaps graceful is the best word to describe her writing style. Lawrence knows her audience.”

“Katherine Lawrence writes with seeming ease about the most knotty of family issues….there are
always several emotions in play, and the lines are rich with irony, the poet playing artfully with
her own desire to be young again.”

“The unbridgeable gap between mothers and daughters is bridged here in the details of beautiful poems. The lenses are nature, boys, bad girls, food and looks. This is a field guide to girls - descriptive, qualitative, and with sharply observed habits and heart.”