Book editor Rose Lloyd, married for twenty-five years, is shocked to lose her job and husband to her conniving assistant, and while the changes first throw her into turmoil, Rose soon discovers the advantages to starting over, and even finds love again.
A married mother of two grown children, Barbara Beeching embarks on an affair with a younger man at the expense of everything she has ever known, while Siena, a career woman in her mid-thirties, re-evaluates her chosen childless state.