About the Book: The Spectacular Miss
I learned that I am, despite my early years spent as a swaggering boy, at heart
just a middle-class, hard-working, risk-averse, un-creative, strait-laced,
routine-obsessed conformist. In case I forgot to mention it, Im also prudish to
the point of being puritanical. But at eight, Nira had only one over-powering
wish-to pee standing up like a boy. In fact, to be a boy. Join Nira as she steps
into her brothers clothes and becomes the self-appointed Al Caponesque gang
leader of the neighbourhood boys. Her oddball yet madly loving family shapes her
personality, and a poignant relationship with her brothers best friend