‘carole morin gave up guilt for lent,' blinkhorn continues, 'and has no intention of succumbing to the temptation of wallowing in it again. in a world where women particularly are almost required to be overworked, overtired and overwrought, she is a refreshing, not to say alarming, beacon of decadence…with a teenager’s bafflement about the modern obsession with trying and failing to have it all….'