Mason J.

For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or totally in the dark, the young people in these sixteen...

As a nonagenarian widow, Kate Keepdown still revelled in being outrageous. Her anxious friends were quite unable to dissuade her from assembling her relations to help celebrate her birthday and, most important of all, to learn the proposals for the making of her Will. The family solicitor had tried desperately to warn the childless old lady that the scandalous scheme she'd planned could lead only to trouble, but he never expected that the weekend...