Why Can’t Everything Just Stay the Same?: And Other Things I Shout When I Can’t

As a child, being in new places made Stefanie Preissner ill – hence, her family holidayed in the same apartment on the same island off the Spanish coast for nine years in a row. At Christmas she wrote lengthy letters to Santa (note: letters, plural) begging him not to bring any surprises. She hated change. Of all descriptions. But change happens, no matter what we do. This is a book about the many ways in which Stefanie has changed, despite her best and sustained efforts to stay the same.