Deserted by her husband - who'd found love with an 'EastEnders' star - and knee-deep in children, Julie Ellison thought she was coping just fine with having no life of her own . . . but then the eminently desirable TV environmentalist Ed McGregor arrived on the scene.
Julie knows that she's out of her league with Ed, but the search for love, difficult at the best of times, is just about impossible under the close scrutiny of two adolescents who think women over 30 should leave sex and dating to the younger generation.