Amazon.com description: Product Description: Meet the residents of 31 Almanac Road in a romantic, engrossing novel that takes you up the garden path, through the front door and into the most intimate parts of other people's lives. Ralph and Smith are best friends. Until they fall for Jemima, their new flatmate. Jem knows one of them's the man for her - but which one? Karl and Siobhan live in the flat above. Happily unmarried for fifteen years, it looks as if nothing can spoil their domestic idyll. Except maybe Cheri, the femme fatale, in the top flat. She's got her eye on Karl and she isn't about to let his fat girlfriend stand in the way...