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Deborah Hazlett's clear, soft soprano is perfect as librarian Daisy Minor, a predictable Southern small-town girl who hasn't had any excitement in years. Daisy determines to change this on her thirty-fourth birthday. Hazlett expresses Daisy's dismay at the blandness of her life, as well as her determination to be made over into a seductress and find herself a man. Daisy's turnaround is accompanied by a number of mistakes--some comical, deriving from Daisy's naivete and inexperience--and some dangerous, as when Daisy unknowingly witnesses a crime and endangers her new life almost before it begins. E.J.F. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 02]