Catherine Alliott

"I don't care what color you paint the sodding hall. I'm leaving."

When her husband Johnny suddenly walks out on ten years of marriage, their ten-year-old daughter and the crumbling house they're up to their eyeballs renovating, Olivia is completely devastated.

Where did she go wrong? How could she not have noticed his unhappiness? But Olivia doesn’t have time to entertain what ifs.

Not when she's got three builders camped in her back garden, a neighbor with a never-ending supply of cast-off men she thinks Olivia would be drawn to and a daughter with her own firm views on . . . well, just about everything.

Will Olivia’s luck ever change, or will she finally start making her own luck?