This is a funny, modern-day love story set in South Africa. Paula is a frustrated school teacher. At 43 years of age she longs to find someone to share her interests, and life, with. Her friend Mel convinces her to place an ad in the lonely hearts page of a farming magazine. She tells herself this is just a bit of fun, but secretly she hopes to find the man of her dreams. The school term has ended and the two friends embark on a small road trip through several farming towns in central South Africa, visiting local festivals along the way. They run into some interesting and colourful characters...

Without the baby boom, the United States would be a different place. The Vietnam War would have lasted longer. Rock and roll would be less pervasive. The civil rights movement would have changed laws and attitudes more slowly. But women might be further ahead in job status and pay if there had been no baby boorr.. Hous- ing would be cheaper. The economy would have done better in the 1970s, and people now in their 20s, 30s, and 40s would be making more money. For the past 30 years, the baby boom generation- all those born between 1946 and 1964-shook American economics, politics, and culture....