Alice Aigner is successful, independent, and a confirmed serial dater, but at her 10-year school reunion she has a sudden change of heart. Bored rigid by her married, mortgaged, and motherly former classmates, Alice decides to prove that a woman can have it all: a man, marriage, career, kids, and a mind of her own. She sets herself a goal: meet the perfect man and marry him before her 30th birthday, just under two years away. Unfortunately for Alice, it's not quite as easy as she imagines.

Anita Heiss is a writer and poet, the coeditor of Anthology of Australian Abroginial Literature and the author of I'm Not Racist, But . . .