A smart romantic comedy about rain, sponge cake and the trouble with happy endings.

'Melancholy. It's like drain unblocker for novelists.'

Last year Jane Lockhart was a bestseller, this year she's got writer's block. Unfortunately, she's ground to a halt on the novel that's going to save the neck of her struggling indie publisher and ex–boyfriend, Tom Duval.

As Tom sees it, the trouble is that Jane's success has made her too damned happy – and she can't be smiling if she's going to finish her latest misery–lit hit, right? So, to break her block, he sets about ruining everything in her life that's making her happy...