What do you do when your husband leaves you for his secretary, your novel does a dead-cat bounce and your company goes broke? Gina Laurel, a 50-barely-something corporate high-flier, is wishing she'd beat her husband to it and is looking for the answer to life's big questions when a chance meeting throws a post-haste sea change her way. A job as a house-slash-dog-sitter albeit in a minus one-star leaky cottage in windswept Shelly Beach seems the perfect opportunity to relax and regroup. But Gina hasn't counted on the locals, and soon finds herself reluctantly convening the local writers' group, babysitting, baking, seal-watching, bicycling...and perhaps even falling in love. The Shelly Beach Writers' Group is an irresistible, whimsical story of reinvention.