Godwin doesn't disappoint in any of these areas, including the reassurance that a young person who has lived through two marriages, numerous romances, premature concern about the fading of her looks, professional rejections and a "skin of my teeth" admission to a prestigious writing program can go on to become all she's dreamed of.
Maybe it's not very professional, but rejection hurts.
This is reflected, for example, in the endorsement of the item The first aider should tell the person that they will support them in getting professional help, and rejection of the item The first aider should encourage the person to seek professional help.
Writers are driven by demons, he wrote, the work is unimaginably hard – as complex as brain surgery, apparently – not to mention solitary, and fraught with rejection and professional envy.
In them, she writes about living in New York ("When I drink anything / out of a martini glass / I feel untouched by / professional and sexual / rejection") and staying at home ("I will not be attending the party / tonight, because I am / microwaving multiple Lean Cuisines / and watching Wife Swap, / which is designed to get back / at fathers, as westernized media / is often wont to do").
Such a raft of challenges are not completely foreign to his creator, C. D. Payne, who has spent significant chunks of his own career struggling, working a series of lousy jobs, living in a trailer for four years and receiving a trail of rejection letters, professional and otherwise.
Where UKIP embraced voters' rejection of professional politicians, Mr Clegg condemned what he called the "false comfort of grievance".
A subtle but key finding emerging from our work is that carer dissatisfaction is rarely fuelled by an outright rejection of professional accountability for care planning decisions alone.
