I’m in two minds about this book. On one hand, the book can seem like just so many words, and trite ones at that. There’s no real order to the information—it’s just vomitted out. The silver text can be difficult to read and although it’s apparently “designed to be toted around” it is quite a large, heavy book. Despite being strong on individual style and claiming that the girls photographed are not models, said girls are pretty much all tanned and fairly slim, while they all are wearing similar kinds of clothes and jewellry, have a similar kind of style.

Nevertheless I tried to keep an open mind, as asked. I found that the book did raise some interesting questions for me and it seemed to come just at the right time—I had a wonderful sense of peace as I sat down to read it in the evenings with a good cup of tea. I was also pleased to see the photographer credited on the title page. He richly deserved it, as the photos are really what makes the book.