'Speed Post' short summary of the book The book is a series of letters to her six children, either grown, or nearly so. The subjects that she approaches through the medium of letters include: growing pains and adolescent anxieties about love, sex and friendship; religion and God; the challenge of being a responsible parent, death, remembrance and family traditions, the place of career, sex and of values in the lives of her children Contents Acknowledgements.....................viii Introduction.....................ix My Mother Is an Alien!.....................1 Circle of Love.....................45 Growing Up Is Hard to Do.....................95 What's Love Got to Do with It?.....................159 Net Nannies and Cyber Gypsies.....................197 The Heart Goes On.....................219