No Dancing in the Lift' the sky detonated into chandeliers of light, and the Harbour Bridge was illuminated with Eternity, but the dawning of the new millennium was for me an anticlimax. Nothing had really changed; you were still dying, and no amount of pretty, sequined light floating from the heavens was going to reverse your fate.' When Mandy Sayer learns of her father Gerry's diagnosis of terminal cancer, she faces a reckoning with past and future as she learns to