Quentin and Lottie Bredin can't afford to divorce, so must downsize and move their three children from London to Devon. Arrogant, adulterous Quentin can't understand Lottie's anger; while Lottie feels intolerably wounded. Why is their rent so low? What is the mystery surrounding their unappealing new home? The beautiful landscape conceals a dark side... Sally Verity, happily married but unhappily childless, knows a different side to country life, as a Health Visitor and sheep farmer's wife. When Lottie's teenage son Xan gets a zero-hours contract at a local pie factory, he sees yet another. At the end of their year, all their lives will be changed for ever...
