After her sojourn in the Middle East – detailed in Lessons Learned by the same author – maths teacher Claire Shaw moves to Florida to fulfil her dream of living and teaching in America. Unfortunately, things there without her beloved husband Richard are not as she pictured them. She is instantly recognised as an outsider in this new environment: the school is like nothing she has ever experienced, the kids range from the sublime to the ridiculous and she”s plagued by expense and bureaucracy – not to mention loneliness. Will the new friends she has made be enough for her to feel at home?