a) working stuff out as you go along tends to bite you in the arse 

b) men who look good in gumboots are Dangerous 

c) it's a good idea to keep an eye out for neighbours when bathing naked in your sheep trough 

Nancy’s having a hard time. Her career trajectory has flatlined, she’s just been jilted for a prettier, more limber girl-woman, and she's just turned forty. 

But Nancy has a secret weapon. Desperation. 

Determined to make a fresh start (one that on no account features men of the falling-in-love-with variety), she purchases a rural property on a whim at the foot of the Southern Alps and attempts to settle into country life. 

She finds the vista of the mountains healing. She also finds a tall, dark, and gumbooted stranger (who proves to be therapeutic in other ways). 

But when she discovers her precious view is about to be taken away, Nancy faces a hard choice. Should she play saboteur to protect her own happiness, even if it means losing the man who just might possibly be the key to it? 

Maybe her fresh start is actually a false start. Or maybe she’s learning a thing or two about how to be a kick-ass, self-reliant woman.