The following motions cannot be amended:

For a moment she was lost in the pursuit of an unseizable clue--the explanation of this monstrous last perversity of fate.

Six diners in business clothes—five attractive young women and a balding middle-aged man—relax over cigarettes.

She first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV miniseries.