Hope adores her handsome husband. But stuck with two children in the tiny village of Redlion, so that Matt can follow his dream, Hope just wants to go home. Her sister Sam has just got the top London music job she's always wanted. So why does she have the nagging feeling there's still something missing? Widowed Virginia wants the only thing that she can't have. Failing that, she wants to nurse her grief in private- without the Redlion locals trying to cheer her up. Nicole, insurance clerk by day and karaoke wild child by night, doesn't think about the future until, suddenly, it looks as if she's going to get what she even didn't know she wanted. In the year of turmoil that follows, they soon discover that, sometimes, what you get is what you needed all along.