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This is a wonderfully warm comic tale of Internet dating and the reality of first meetings from the pen of Lou Wakefield, whose previous novels include 'Sleeping Partners', 'Rural Bliss' and 'Tuscan Soup'.

At 39, Pauline Watkins decides something must be done about her routine job and her marriage to a partner who thinks that bedtime is just for sleeping. An exotic holiday would be a start, and she takes part in a house swap, trading her Leicester home for a piece of paradise in Australia. On the other side of the world, Lorna Mackenzie has reached a similar conclusion, but for a rather different reason—her sleeping partner is sleeping around. For Pauline and Lorna, a holiday swap turns into the journey of a lifetime.

Fran Holdaway has an enviable life. She has found a gorgeous and faithful husband, has a job in advertising in London, and commutes from her country home in Leicestershire which she has restored by herself. Now she thinks it's time for babies.