Patricia Ainger

Anna, Jo and Sally live in three houses situated at the end of a lane on the outskirts of the village. Although they have been neighbours for some years, for various reasons, they have had little to do with each other. Each struggles with her life: Anna lacking confidence and battling with depression, keeps herself to herself, dividing her time and energies between her job and her commitments in the village; Jo, divorced, and juggling a responsible office job in Bristol with a career as a professional singer is a woman with a painful secret; Sally, widowed in her thirties, works hard to provide a home for her two teenage children while working full time. As disaster strikes Sally’s family, the three women are drawn together into a close friendship and, as events unfold, each of them is forced to deal with the issues in their respective lives with surprising results.