Lettie Howells is at an all-time low romantically, and the ageing tourist population of her home town Lyme Regis don't help, either. So her housemates and super-sorted sister sign her up to Lonely Hearts, a dating agency, and she meets Doug - a jolly but once-bitten' hunk of a Welsh forester. But the path of true love does not run smoothly when friends and relations muddy things up. Lettie's job in a seafront cafe doesn't stop her yearning to make more of her painting, and a trip to Doug's village provides new canvasses and a brush with fame and fortune thanks to reality tv.'
