Sophie Redlove has a crumbling Gothic mansion to restore, three children to manage, a distraught friend – as well as possums in the laundry at midnight. She loves her absent husband Russell – but there’s an importunate older man who’s after her, a slightly sycophanic younger one, an angel and a Viking on the scene…What the hell is Russell up to? And what is the story in Sophie’s gradually uncovered past that explains her dependence on those mysterious and vulnerable creatures – men?