Friday nights. Eleanor had started them, scooping up Paula and Lindsay, both single mothers who looked as though they needed some adult company, and welcoming them to her untidy, comfortable Fulham house where she had lived alone for fifty years. Soon they were joined by others - Blaise, smart, single and successful, her business partner Karen, the breadwinner for a chaotic young family in which her artist husband promised much but did little, and Jules, Lindsay's confused younger sister. A group of women, different in age and circumstances but with the same needs. It was a warm, inclusive sisterhood - until Paula got herself a new man, Jackson , and somehow the Friday nights weren't the same any more...