This book was given to me by a friend as she found it humourous and unique. It pokes fun at our modern media obsessed lifestyle.

'When Manda Frank gives birth to an astonishing eleven babies, the world descends on her home town of Three Chimneys, Virginia. Beneath the intense media spotlight the town begins to give up its long-held secrets: from unrequited love to more dangerous and subversive passions. Meanwhile, cheesemaker Margaret Prickett decides to highlight the plight of the rural community by creating 'The Mammoth Cheese' - a 1,235-pound wheel of Chesire which she plans to parade all the way to Washington - while failing to notice the plight of her own teenage daughter Polly, whi is caught up in the dangerous romance of rebellion, and veering precariously towards tragedy...'