The Landfill A Search for Finality In a Mote of Dust Diane Horning finds her destiny at a garbage dump.
In Weber's vividly imagined novel, an unhappy daughter of repressed New England Protestants finds her destiny with a family of immigrant candy makers.
After a series of humiliating errors, a chastened Emma finds her destiny in marriage to the mature and protective George Knightley, a neighbouring squire who had been her mentor and friend.
"Her" was a friend from her days as a history major at Columbia (and yes, Ms. Peet graduated, too): Tina Chai, another history major, who had found her destiny first at Vogue and now as a fashion editor at Us magazine.
Casting about for a creative new way to make a living, she found her destiny while making a friend's birthday gift by "gluing rhinestones and plastic objects onto an expandable bracelet".
For her early, not-so-loyal readers, the true Lessing is the Communist who lost her faith but still strove to do good, the strong woman who found her own destiny in a world of men.
Her 2004 novel Northern Girls, whose central character, Qian Xiao Hong, finds her tough destiny driven by the accident of having unusually large breasts, is set to be published by Penguin Australia in May.
But weekends brought parties, and Destiny found her way to more than a few.
Similarly, a critic at "Chick Lit Review" found her most recent novel, "Destiny" sorely lacking.
Sarah Hughes fell off a chair when destiny found her; Hamm put his hands on his head in disbelief before embracing everyone but the volunteers.
