Practically Perfect

Anna has just qualified as an interior designer, and she wants to show her family that she can pay her own way. To do it, she stakes all her money on a tiny cottage, planning to renovate it and sell it at a profit.

From the road the cottage looks like something off a chocolate box. Inside, it is a building site. A ladder stands in for the staircase, the downstairs has no flooring, candles are the only light, and Anna sleeps on a camping mat in a sleeping bag. She starts to wonder whether the project is too big for her.

Her neighbour Chloe steps in with tea, wine and sympathy, and also with Caroline, a greyhound she has recently rescued. With friends close by, Anna begins to think the cottage might become the idyll she hoped for.

Then Rob Hunter turns up. He is good-looking and, to Anna, impossible, and he puts obstacle after obstacle in her way.

This is a light romantic comedy set around a home renovation, with a village neighbourhood, a dog and a prickly new arrival. Anna's money and her independence are both riding on how the work turns out.