Every chapter is leavened with well-turned anecdotes and vignettes.
She has the indispensable knack of being able to write a well-turned scene, and "The Great God Pan" is full of scenes that are so subtly drawn that you can almost overlook their failure to add up to a fully convincing whole.
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Up to 400 worshippers, including a good sprinkling of the wealthy youngsters who are busy gentrifying the nearby wharfs and warehouses, attend its main Sunday service: numbers have doubled in the last three years or so, in a sign that a market exists for formal singing and well-turned sermons.
Another problem is that while this show is patently directed at and created for women, the speakers at the launch event (packed with well-turned-out, influential women) were three dull men and one model who appeared to be recycling her speech from an article she wrote for Vogue, substituting "ball gowns" for summer dresses.
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On Monday night a number of well-wishers turned up hoping to see her but were turned away by West Midlands police.
It was a kind of attraction by fire for Gardner as this year's never-ending amount of well-styled shine turned her into a sequined believer.
He said that the number of well-wishers who turned up outside the church in the prime minister's Co Durham constituency showed the ceremony was something people "wanted to share".
Cabin crews are well-trained and smartly turned out in red uniforms.
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Closer to home, Kabiru says things are changing as well -- his perseverance and hard work have now turned him into a "good example" for youth in his community.
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Many of the non-essential services it cut turned out to be, well, non-essential.
An established brand in its own right, Sex and the City is cosmopolitan - its cocktail of choice as well as the lifestyle celebrated in the newspaper column turned best-selling book turned blockbuster television series turned A-list film.
But two Radicals-turned-independents did well, and can hope to build new opposition parties.
And luckily, the hype turned out to be well-deserved.
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That still creeps us out just a bit, but it did work quite well when we turned down the lights -- our face was still pretty clear to our friend on Skype.
Now, you know, when I was a kid, and I got my hand caught in the cookie jar -- (laughter) -- well, my face sort of turned red and I took my hand out of the cookie jar. (Laughter.) Not Governor Romney.
The enthusiasm for aboriginal art has encouraged artists to venture beyond the more primitive style and has turned some of them into well-paid stars.
Following that, Skyhook claims that Google then went after an unidentified "Company X" ( likely Samsung) and forced it to drop XPS as well -- which would certainly explain why Samsung's Galaxy S phones have WiFi positioning turned off by default, unlike every other Android phone.
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For a second opinion I turned to Andrew Smithers, a well-known investment theorist in London.
Frakes: Well, obviously the job turned into a life-changing experience.
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And I also appreciate the advice he gives me, because he has two daughters that are a little older than mine -- they've turned out very well, so I'm always interested in his perspective on raising girls.
Stuyvesant Fish, for example, threw a well-received soiree honoring a "prince, " who turned out to be a formally attired monkey.
As well as creating a fabulously successful private-equity company, he turned around the failing Salt Lake City winter Olympics of 2002.
New Zealand coach Ricki Herbert soon replaced Fallon with Wood, who went so close to clinching a winning goal as he turned Cannavaro inside-out before guiding a well-struck low shot just the wrong side of the post.
Judge Adrian Smith said Khosravi was a well-educated man from a "decent, supportive family" who turned "violent and frighteningly menacing" during the attack.
He recovered well to birdie seven and eight which meant that he turned in level-par 36.
But as well as tackling heated and important issues with his songs, the artist-turned-activist has also been producing and starring in feature films since the early 1990s, using his celebrity to empower and influence others.
They didn't keep as much money on hand to cover potential losses as they might have and well, when they came up, they turned out to be right - there was no moral hazard, the government bailed them out.
The all-mahogany lobby in Midtown Manhattan where I waited for my interview turned out to be just like my interviewer, intimidating and well-aged.
Eager to soothe anxious, recession-hit voters, as well as those squeezed by globalisation, politicians have turned nostalgic, talking up old traditions as a response to the anomies of 21st-century British life.
Our go-to market leading stocks held up well, and were the first place we turned to this morning when the market showed early strength.
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