Anna, a newly qualified interior designer, has risked everything on buying a tiny but adorable cottage so she can renovate it, sell it on and prove to her family that she can earn her own living. Outside, the chocolate-box cottage is perfect, but inside all is chaos: with a ladder for a staircase, no downstairs flooring adn candles as the only form of lighting, Anna's soon wondering whether she has bitten off more than she can chew.

Her neighbour Chloe comes to the rescue, proving tea, wine and sympathy - and a recently rescued grayhound, Caroline. But just as Anna's starting to believe she's found the perfect idyll, the good-looking yet impossible Rob Hunter arrives on the scene, putting up more obstacles than the Grand National. Can Anna get over all of life's hurdles?