Bachelorette party Bachelorette party A bachelorette party, hen(s) party, hen(s) night or hen(s) do, is a party held for a woman who is about to get married. The terms "hen party", "hen do" or "hen night" are used in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, while the terms "hens party" or "hens night" are common in Australia and New Zealand, and the term "bachelorette party" is common in the United States. The term stagette is occasionally used in Canada. It may also be referred to as a "girls' night out" or "kitchen tea" (South Africa in particular) or other terms in other
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage