About the book: 2022 / Getting a job at Corner of Paradise was Miranda Longlady’s idea. She and I ran into each other at the mall one day and she showed an ad on the information board. Part-time non-union nursing assistants required - 35p/hour. Ideal part-time job for sociable, responsive women of any age. Miranda decided to give it a try and hoped to persuade her sister Melody to work with her. But when Melody finally left the store with a loaf of bread in her hands and read the advertisement, she declared that it was not for her. At that time, she had just entered the punk phase: an earring in the shape of a cube dangled from her pierced ear, and on her T-shirt there was an applique with intellectual obscenity.