Soul searching was an unfamiliar exercise to Bill Stratton—he hadn't had much occasion for it in his life, given that he was fairly shallow, but then, on the verge of his sixtieth birthday, his wife told him she was leaving him for another man. He'd been under the impression they had a happy marriage but she assured him that for nearly forty years she'd known she was married to the wrong person. This all came as a bit of a shock to Bill. Hence the soul searching.

Bill had not much experience of dating (or sex, for that matter) before he met and married Andrea. Post-menopausal dating might be very different to dating in your twenties or thirties, but then he didn't know much about either. Still, as a mildly famous television newsreader who's managed to hold on to (most of) his looks, it seemed he was about to have plenty of oppoortunities to find out...