Description

Love In a Cottageis the story of two middleaged people from very different backgrounds who meet as the result of an advertisement placed in the lonely hearts section of a national newspaper Marlene Sugden is a secretary working in London whose life has changed very much for the worse in a few months Firstly her father who she has loved and cared for over many years dies then her best friend marries and immediately emigrates to Australia and as a final straw Marlenes boss retires and her new boss is a snappy and difficult man Marlene dearly wants a husband and a home to care for and in her desperation she places an advertisement in the Evening Standard Lonely unmarried woman good cook and homemaker seeks kindhearted single middleaged man with viewtomatrimony if suited Deep in the Herefordshire countryside Donald Evans sits reading a twodayold newspaper as he eats his meal of baked beans straight from the tin His eye is caught by Marlenes advertisement He is single mid40s and kindhearted if it does not cost him anything Donald hunts out a piece of notepaper sharpens his pencil and replies to Marlenes advertisement