ALEX MARTIN is depressed, divorced, over-weight and over-forty. Middle age has not made her overly optimistic on the love front. Independence has the ominous ring of propaganda about it. Solitude does not make her drink less wine. Maybe, just maybe, her ex husband, Richard, will take her back after a month of alcohol rehabilitation at a Georgian rectory in Essex.
Instead, hung-over and alone in her London flat, Alex has a stroke, and waking in hospital finds her fifty year old mind captive inside the body of a gorgeous twenty-year old beautician, LUCY BLOO.
Thinking the unsayable - and shamelessly embracing the opportunities of youth to get what she wants. Alex dissembles her way round London seeking love, riches and revenge. Finding in the end, that all that glisters is not gold...