I don't suppose the book was actually written by a woman who was afraid it wouldn't be published if she didn't pretend to be a man? That happened often enough in the past. I have read plenty of books written by men that seemed to express the feelings of women very well, so I don't think it is a given fact that all truly great portrayals of character have to be written by a person of the same gendar. Sarah Van Oosterwijck http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity