When Mary meets Monty, heir to a stately pile, happiness seems assured But as the mansion crumbles, passion wanes along with the heating Beth exchanges Holland Park for simple weekends at the country cottage her banker husbands bonus has bought They only offered a little over the asking price why don't the locals like them? WAG Alexandra needs a country mansion fast Her footballer boyfriend is being transferred and time is running out Morag is the terror of the village She's a Stalin against slug pellets who wears hemp trousers and makes her own Weetabix When the village launches an allotment project they become dramatically embroiled in a bitter struggle over sex, power and money, which threatens to blight more than everyones carrots