About the book: 2010 / Valerie Hughes was always eccentric and did only what came into her head, not caring about the consequences. However, Valerie still had to grow up when a longtime admirer proposed to her. After all, at five minutes it is not appropriate for a married woman to chase a ball with her brothers, be late for important meetings and fly off without warning anyone to another country for a carnival. And yet it’s hard for Valerie to get over herself and turn from a funny girl into a real lady. A free lifestyle helped to forget about an old wound that did not want to heal. As you know, such wounds are left only by unhappy love, which may one day return to disrupt all carefully thought-out plans…