"These are not, I should say from the outset, tales written for the benefit of good and well-behaved girls..." Rosie Little knows better than most that some men are wolves at heart and that fairy-tale endings are often, in the end, only fairy tales. And yet stout-hearted Rosie reassures us -- with her playful wit and directness that there are ways out of the deep dark forests of our own making, offering survival tales of teenagers deflowered at parties, a young journalist who misses the chance to write a front-page story because she's busy flirting with a married man, and two women who must cope with the Joss of their babies. Rosie a thoroughly modern Little Red Riding Hood will enchant women of all ages with her sharp, rueful take on life, love, and everything in between.