The most eventful chapters in the existences of Lorraine (Ms. Falco) and Marie (Ms. Pill), former cellmates who meet again in London, are probably in the past, an idea that clearly haunts them.
Merging the affable, straight-faced whimsy of Dave Barry, the author and former humor columnist, with the plot-spinning skills of Mr. Pearson, a suspense novelist, the children's book is divided into short, fast, highly eventful chapters that might translate naturally into a fantasy action movie, preferably animated.
This work covers in 20 chapters the eventful years from Christopher Columbus' earliest landings and explorations on the mainland in 1498 to the death in 1579 of the conqueror of New Granada, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
For Mobley, it's another chapter in an eventful existence, one thick with the vagaries of a life that followed a meandering course.
The next chapter in their eventful 155-year history may well offer a clue as to where the wider English club game is ultimately heading.
The advent of a new Democratic administration, with his wife in the top cabinet slot, has opened a new chapter in the eventful life of the nation's 42nd president.
Sunday will mark another chapter in an eventful few years for Swansea City when they walk out at Wembley for their first major cup final.
The wage settlement was just one chapter in an eventful season, during which Rangers entered administration amid mounting debts and received a 12-month transfer ban for bringing the game into disrepute.
Defoe could not stretch far enough to turn Bale's cross into an open goal - leaving the stage clear for the turbulent Balotelli to write another chapter into his eventful Manchester City story.
