Holly Macintosh is sitting round her kitchen table with her oldestfriends - friends she hasn't seen since school - now reunited by anunexpected tragedy and catching up on the past twenty years.

On the surface, they are all successful and happy. But scratch a little deeper after that extra glass of wine and it's not quite so straightforward: Paul and Anna are struggling to have a baby,Saffron the actress is still waiting for that really big break that - at thirty-nine-is looking less and less likely, and Olivia, always the wallflower of the group, is newly single and mourning her lost love.