It is a truth universally acknowledged that a widowed woman in possession of a large Georgian home in Bath, but with no money to buy tea or toilet paper, needs a solution, and one quickly. And for 70-year-old Marion Gaynor, the solution is a house share.

Renting rooms in her beautiful home to young PhD student Felicity Booth and recently separated Lana Rolls is a risk... but the friendship that blooms between them will change their lives forever.