Hope Parker is married to gorgeous Matt, has two enchanting toddlers (even if little Millie wants to run the family), and a successful job. But childhood insecurities keep Hope worrying that she's not good enough. When Matt suddenly decides to take a sabbatical from his high-paying ad agency and move the family to a tiny cottage in County Kerry, she agrees despite crushing doubts. Strangely, though, it is Matt who flounders in Ireland: The book he's always wanted to write is depressingly wooden, and the writer's life is not all he's dreamed of. Hope, on the other hand, is flourishing in the village of Redlion, falling in with a wonderful pair of Irish women: town pharmacist Mary-Kate and her niece, Delphine, who take Hope and another newcomer, the widowed Virginia Connell, under their wings.But with Matt growing coldly distant, and her older sister, single career woman Sam, who has always been there by phone and email, having crises of her own, Hope is starting to think she's the only one in the family who's keeping a straight head. Then Christy De Lacy, the hunk who runs the local posh hotel, tries to sweep her off her feet. Hope has spent her life trying to please others. Now she needs to ask what she wants for herself....