About the book: 1978 / Writer Rimma Kovalenko worked as a correspondent for Pionerskaya Pravda for over ten years. Therefore, her first works, “Guys from our yard” and “Valka Sablin from 5 “A”, were written about children. Later, her collection of stories “One of Our Own, Zoya” and the story “Walking to Mom’s Childhood” were published. In the collection of stories “How It was - it won’t be” included the writer’s works, already published in the pages of the magazines “New World”, “October”, “Ogonyok”, “Siberian Lights”, etc. R. Kovalenko takes real, life situations, shows the ordinary fates of people living next to us. Her heroines are women with different destinies, different characters, both young and old. Youth is a wonderful time, everything is ahead of it, but mature years are no less beautiful. It is important what kind of person he is, what result he came to after living a great life - this is the main idea that unites all the works of R. Kovalenko.