Annie heffy a cab driving baby butch, lives a life of freedom and a shack of on the Connecticut coast. her dislike a yearly's and all they represent extends to beauty self possessed Victoria Locke at first and they then they fall in love and both their worlds change forever toothpick house is their story but it is also the story of a budgeting women's movement the changes it brings to judicial lesbians lives and the ways in which it affects it altered all of the young women of the past decade Lee Lynch a long known as a writer of fine short stories offers us this her first novel we predict it will become a classic.