Valentine is famous for writing parenting guide books and being the perfect mother, wife and woman. But then out of the blue her husband Nicholas announces that he wants a divorce and leaves her, then a short while later their teenage kids decide to go and live with him. The timing couldn’t be worse as their twenty something daughter, Sophie, is about to get married. So even as things get nasty between Valentine and Nicholas the wedding forces them to regularly collide. On top of this Valentine’s got a book coming out that her pushy agent says needs to sell millions to keep the publisher afloat. Gradually Valentine comes to accept that over the years her work life balance has gone badly wrong and realises that she must learn to be a better mother, change and somehow get her kids back from the manipulative Nicholas who now only cares about getting as much money from her as he can in their bitterly fought divorce, so he can start a new life with his long term lover.
Whilst all this is going on, a friend tries to set Valentine up with the handsome local aristocrat Lord Mallory and a charming but roguish journalist called Daniel enters her life. Although Daniel is there to write a magazine article about Valentine they end up having a one night stand and even though they deny it they fall in love. But when Valentine reads his article she feels betrayed by him because he wrote something that she said off the record whilst in a vulnerable state. Valentine refuses to see Daniel anymore and when her lawyers say that the article will be used against her in the divorce Valentine gets him fired from the magazine. After that whenever their paths cross there are angry fireworks between them, even though deep down they still have intense feelings for each other.
Meanwhile Sophie’s fast track career threatens to come to a sudden halt when she unexpectedly gets pregnant. This puts pressure on her relationship with her fiancée Grant in the run up to their wedding and Sop
