If Life Begins at Forty, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts.
On top of a recent divorce, a failed attempt to move house and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly-single woman.
No longer able to blame everything on a floundering marriage, Charlotte is forced to open her eyes and embark on an emotional joourney into her past. Only when she has faced some challenging and revealing truths can she finally shed the unhappy skin she's become so used to, and open up her life - and her heart - to all the promise and possibility that her future holds.
