Widowed at 46, Denise has come to the end of that first year alone and survived. It's time to get back out in the world and live her life. However, life - and her own family - seem to have other ideas, as her mother and daughter move into a house now bursting at the seams. A battle of wills ensues which Denise is determined to win, because only when she has sorted everyone else's lives out can she get on with her own. Romance doesn't figure in her calculations - but Denise should know that life doesn't always go according to plan...