Is there part of her that remains the proud "pagan" and rebel she declares herself to be in the early pages?
There are a couple of neat musical comedy numbers (a song about proper parenting skills with choreographed pram-pushing hits home) and Kath & Kim's Magda Szubanski is indeed as "fabulous" as she declares herself to be.
Nothomb declares herself to be in the middle of her 64th manuscript, having reached a rhythm where she completes three or four manuscripts a year, publishing only those which she feels comfortable sharing with others.
Oh right, its Yasmina! 8.19pm: One of the only actual entrepreneurs in the whole set, and certainly the only one left, Yasmina declares herself to be a leader, and a businesswoman: plain and simple.
The story is virtually unchanged: a feckless middle-aged wastrel who once earned money donating sperm finds himself on the wrong end of a paternity suit brought by 142 fatherless offspring at the precise moment that his girlfriend declares herself to be pregnant.
In all models the dependent variable is the ordered categorical variable l it = 1, 2, 3, corresponding to whether the woman declares herself to be in the "no work", "part-time" or "full-time" status, respectively.
