Poppy Furlong has the dream life - a gorgeous home, a loving husband and a five-year-old son she adores. Then overnight she loses it all - her home, gym membership, expensive car, regular trips to the beauty salon - because her husband's business partner has disappeared with the company profits.

As she attempts to rebuild her family, Poppy leaves Dublin for the suburbs. There she acquires a mother-in-law from hell, a father she hardly knows, a new job, a new friend, a better insight into parenting. It's a whole new life, but will it match up to the old one? Or ... Read moremight it just be better?