What do you do when your husband dumps you for his PA, your company goes broke and your nearly published novel is cancelled? Gina, a barely 50-something corporate high-flier, is counting her losses when a chance meeting throws a sea change her way. A job as a house/dog-sitter – albeit in a minus one-star leaky cottage in windswept Shelly Beach – seems the perfect opportunity to relax and regroup. But Gina hasn't counted on the locals, and soon finds herself reluctantly convening the writers' group, babysitting, baking, seal-watching, bicycling . . . and perhaps even falling in love. 'Best served with chardonnay and blinis with smoked salmon and sour cream.' Saturday Age 'A warm and wonderful page-turner.' Country Style