Alice's world is blown apart when her husband Rob dies suddenly of a heart attack - in another woman's bed. Only 40, Rob was an energetic, opinionated, handsome local GP. This wasn't supposed to happen. Left to manage their home, three teenage children and a recalcitrant parrot, Alice struggles to hold it all together.Working herself at Rob's old surgery as a GP, she finds herself caught up in the designs of Rob's old partner, who owns the premises and wants to sell. And distracted by the good looks of locum Tom x. Her best friend Martha claims all she needs is a new man - but Alice knows it goes deeper than that. She's got to find a way to make her children happy, and work out a future for all of them ...

Alice's world collapses when her husband has a heart attack at 40 - in another woman's bed. Rob the perfect GP and husband was not as perfect as she had thought. Rob was the perfect GP and, she thought, the perfect husband. Left with three teenage children, his recalcitrant parrot, and even his job, Alice still wonders, three years on, how she could have been so wrong.

Now the practice is under threat and the family faces big decisions. Alice is wavering, her confidence gone. Her best friend Martha and her conspiring children think a new man would sort her out - and gorgeous locum Tom Lovejoy seems just what the doctor ordered.

But Alice knows she has to learn to trust her own judgement again, before she can make the choices that will affect them all?