But then there is "Destroyedmichygen," where the teenage Darling finds herself in the care of her Zimbabwean aunt, the common-law wife of a Ghanaian man whose son from another woman — an obese boy dressed in sagging pants, obsessed with video games — seems to have imbibed the worst of American youth culture.
Women of, ahem, a certain age could not find roles in film and so were forced to, bravely, stoically, with heads held high, darling, find work in (shudder) television.
Kent, who co-founded the Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings, found significant critical and commercial success with her first novel.
Mr Darling may find that too much for even his sangfroid.
Alice goes down the rabbit hole, the Darling children find themselves in the Lost Boys' underground lair in Neverland.
She's having a tough time juggling single-motherhood and a glittering media career (tell me about it, darling, I find it hard enough and I'm not even single, or a mother, technically).
Such a deal would annoy the bank's shareholders, who would be bought out for some variation of a pittance; but if Mr Darling could find a private-sector buyer with a firm promise to repay taxpayers quickly, it would be a tidy solution.The problem is that no such private-sector buyer seems to exist; everybody relies on Mr Darling underwriting the deal for a considerable amount of time.
Darling startups find ways to crash and burn.
By 2002, when the new scheme is up and running, there may well have been a general election, or Mr Darling may have found himself a new job.
On the morning of her death, instinctively I posted the following message: "My darling Louise was found drowned in her bath this morning.
