When Kit Meadows moves to Mayfield Close she expects - and hopes - to find a small tight knit and supportive community that will assist her in bringing up a small child on her own. Nothing could be further from the truth.The neighbours rarely speak and hardly know each other; what they do know is speculative and not exactly in the highest regard. When scandal upsets their settled lives and staid opinions, the neighbours are forced to interact for the first time, precipitating events that none could have foreseen.