A wonderfully fresh novel about love & life from the Sunday Times bestselling author Ellen has been living on her own in a picturesque if damp cottage in Cheshire since her husband abandoned her to go & live with another woman in Provence Having married once for love she is now determined that the second time around it will be for money Close at hand is Duncan her not unattractive & enticingly single divorce lawyer But then two new people enter her life Jo-Jo a homeless girl several months pregnant & Matthew an artist who paints murals in country houses & who on first meeting Ellen openly criticises her for being mercenary & devious But as hostility gives way to friendship Ellen realises that she has wavered off course from her original plan & has to remind herself very strongly indeed that Duncan is the man for her