Internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes presents Maggie Walsh: a housewife with a perfectly organized job, husband, and life. Until she loses it all and ditches the doldrums for her best friend in sunny L.A. At first she's a fish out of water, yet overnight she's pitching scripts and experimenting with sex, and before she's through, neither the City of Angels nor Maggie will ever be the same.

After catching her husband having an affair and being fired from her job, Maggie Walsh suddenly finds her perfectly organized existence has become a perfect mess. She decides, for the first time in her life, to do something daring -- and flees to her best friend, Emily, in the faraway wonderland of Los Angeles. In this mecca of tanned, beautiful bodies, unsvelte, uncool Maggie is decidedly a fish out of water. Yet, overnight, she's mixing with film folk, pitching scripts, even experimenting with sex -- and discovering that the end of a marriage is not the end of the world.