Why do we have to live with men? As another evening with her best friends & a few bottles of wine comes to an end, Cat O' Connor is left pondering this very question. &, escaping from a ruined love affair, she is about to find the answer. When Cat joins a group of women in a huge, decaying farmhouse deep in the countryside, she prepares to embark on six months without men. Cat is promised a nirvana of serenity where chores are done without mutinous mutterings, where nourishing food simmers on the Aga & where feelings are taken seriously. But Cat soon discovers that women are no saints either...